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Welcome to the External links WikiProject, a project dedicated to cleaning up overly long lists of external links and having articles conform to Wikipedia's external links guidelines! We're a relatively small WikiProject, and so we could always use some help. Feel free to sign up and help us out!
Scope
The goals of this WikiProject are
- to improve Wikipedia external links guidelines, in any way that helps better guide discussions of whether to include particular links or not
- to recover or remove dead external links
- quality control — keep lists of external links to a reasonable length and quality
- support WikiProject Spam in their combat against external linkspam
Related WikiProjects
How to help
The best way to show your support is to participate! This, and adding {{Wikipedia:WikiProject External links/Userbox}} to your userpage allows users to identify you as someone who helps out here, and gain some attention for the project so that others can help out, too.
Be on constant lookout for "linkspam" and adherence to the Wikipedia External links policy by keeping an eye on watchlist articles and Wikipedia:Most vandalized pages. Articles that need work can also be found by looking at random articles.
In some cases it's clear which links are 'spam', while other times it is important to defer to the content/topic experts to help discern which links are informative and useful. This could be done by copying the external links to the talk page for discussion, and for voting keep, delete, or give comments. This is particularly important for controversial topics such as Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Articles that need external links cleanup
This is a short list of articles that have an excessive external links section, and might require a clean up.
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Open Tasks:
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Others
This is a list of places you can look for articles that might require a cleanup.
Templates
- {{WikiProject External links}} - to use on articles that need work
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The WikiProject banner below should be moved to this page's talk page. If this is a demonstration of the template, please set the parameter |category=no to prevent this page being miscategorised. |
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- {{Cleanup-spam}}
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This article or section may contain spam. If you are familiar with the content of the external links, please help by removing promotional links in accordance with Wikipedia:External links. (You can help!) |
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The external links in this article may not follow Wikipedia's content policies or guidelines. Please improve this article by removing excessive or inappropriate external links. |
- {{subst:NoMoreLinks}} - a substituted template, visible only while editing
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<!--| LINKS. If you think that your link might be useful, do not add it here, |-->
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<!--| to the appropriate category at the Open Directory Project (www.dmoz.org)|-->
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<!--| Links that have not been verified WILL BE DELETED. |-->
<!--| See [[Wikipedia:External links]] and [[Wikipedia:Spam]] for details |-->
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- {{subst:Wikipedia:WikiProject External links/Welcome}} - a template to welcome new participants to the project
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Thank you for joining WikiProject External links, a collaborative effort to have articles comply with Wikipedia's External links guidelines. Below are some ongoing tasks for you to take part in, or you can add a task to do. Another great place to check out is Category:Wikipedia external links cleanup. Happy editing, ~~~~ | |
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WikiProject External links tasks you can do:
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Userbox
Participants may add this userbox to their user page: {{Wikipedia:WikiProject External links/Userbox}}
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See also
- Wikipedia:External links
- Wikipedia is not a link repository
- Wikipedia:Dead external links
- Wikipedia:Conflict of interest
- Wikipedia:Spam
- Wikipedia:Citing sources: external links sections
- Wikipedia:Citing sources: dead reference links
Wikipedia content modification information:
- This page was last modified on 26 July 2008, at 13:32.
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