Talk:List of essential oils

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Who decides on the external links... they don't seem to be very valuable links to me...primarily there for adsense and other revenue...without offering much information at all.

—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 68.116.61.254 (talk • contribs • WHOIS) .

There are three external links as of this writing. Each of the three is there because they have reasonably informative writeups on more than a handful of essential oils, and are therefore good, general collections of introductory information on these oils. The Hippylife and Lawless links are better than the Natural life link, but even that one seemed to have enough content to be worth including. I can't speak for other editors, but I've gone through every link that's ever been added to this page, to see if they seemed worth having here. If you'll look back at the history of the article, you'll see a lot of links that weren't anything but commercial that have been removed. These are the three that survived the review.

As for "who decides", it's by a combination of consensus and policy, like all other decisions on Wikipedia. Anybody who cares to, who's willing to play by the rules, is welcome to contribute. Waitak 11:31, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Linking 'Oil'

The word 'oil' appears variously in red, black and blue according to linking etc. Could there be some standardisation? I would suggest unlinked, in black all the way through. A link to 'Oil' at the top of the page would be sufficient. As the page is headed essential oils it seems unnecessary to have 100 links to it. Any suggestions?89.240.7.61 11:39, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] 'Essential Oils'

After reading 'Essential Oils' it seems that one of the key points is that these oils embody the fragrance of the plant/flower/seed etc thus their use in aroma therapy. I suspect that some of the oils on this list would not then be classed as essential oils. An example would be rose seed oil (Moqueta). Any comments? 89.240.7.61 11:52, 24 March 2007 (UTC)