User talk:Forevercharlton

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Hello, Forevercharlton, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

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[edit] MRSA links

The links I removed on Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus on 3rd June were to forum websites. The WP:External links guideline means that forums are generally inappropriate links, unless the article is directly about the website itself. Information on a forum (or indeed another wiki) is not WP:Reliable sources.

As for "The visitors they generated", Wikipedia is not a directory listings service for external sites and support groups (there is always Google etc for that). That said, I would agree with your valid point that the guidelines/rules of wikipedia should not be applied in "a partisan fashion", so feel free to delete other inappropriate external links (using the Edit summary to set out reasoning in any given case), or raise a discussion about a particular link in an article's talk page (likewise if you feel a contentious external link should be re-added). David Ruben Talk 13:20, 6 June 2007 (UTC)