Talk:Junk Rig

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Thanks, Mbbradford!

Happy wanderer 17:28, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

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I'm curious about the deletion of the link to the Junk Rig Yahoo Group - I understand that in most cases, a discussion group isn't an appropriate encyclopedic source, but this one includes discussion by some of the experts in the field cited elsewhere in this article.

And I also understand that Wikipedia guidelines discourage linking to registration-only sources, and most Yahoo Groups would count as registration-only, but this particular group isn't, really - you have to register to post and to look at the photos section, but anyone can read the posts or search for information, which seems to be why one would wish to avoid registration-only sources to begin with.

I'm not married to the link, but I did find it extremely useful myself, and probably wouldn't have discovered it had it not been in a previous version of this page. --grant 22:25, 3 July 2007 (UTC)

I didn't object to the yahoo group either. It was deleted by an administrator based on the policy to avoid links where you needed to register, and also because Wiki is not supposed to be a list of links to other info as much as it is supposed to paraphrase the info from other sources in the article. If there was something you really liked on the yahoo group page, please paraphrase it and include it in the article. You can still reference it that way, I guess! mbbradford 16:44, 4 July 2007 (UTC)

We have a reference in the Current Research section that refers to the removed external link, so that needs to be fixed. I will do it in a few days, if no-one else does.

I am not sure that "avoiding links where you need to register" is viable these days. To avoid spam one has to register before one can contribute to anything these days, including Wikipedia. Static web pages are not the only good resource; access to experience and advice is also useful to the study of any topic. The moderator of the yahoo group was disappointed, and expressed the view that it was odd that commercial links would be allowed, but a reference to a free resource would not. SuW 14:22, 2 October 2007 (UTC)