Wikipedia:WikiProject_External

Wikipedia:WikiProject External links

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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.

WikiProject External links	This box: (watch • • changes • add / remove a task)
Open Tasks: Anarcho-capitalism `(\|`talk`\|`history`\|`links`\|`watch`\|`logs`)` - 36 links, including personal websites, essays and irrelevancies Matt Taibbi `(\|`talk`\|`history`\|`links`\|`watch`\|`logs`)` - 30 links in 6 categories! Link section almost as large as text of article. Charles Woodruff Yost `(\|`talk`\|`history`\|`links`\|`watch`\|`logs`)` - Down from 90 to 28, is being worked on by Aude (talk · contribs) and Naruto Tron (talk · contribs). Father's rights `(\|`talk`\|`history`\|`links`\|`watch`\|`logs`)` - ~11 external links, but all need to be incorporated into the article. Savanna, Georgia `(\|`talk`\|`history`\|`links`\|`watch`\|`logs`)` - 30 external links. Rock and alternative music in Iran `(\|`talk`\|`history`\|`links`\|`watch`\|`logs`)` - 53 external links. Indianapolis, Indiana `(\|`talk`\|`history`\|`links`\|`watch`\|`logs`)` - ~39 external links. Iranian rock `(\|`talk`\|`history`\|`links`\|`watch`\|`logs`)` - 26 external links. SOCKS `(\|`talk`\|`history`\|`links`\|`watch`\|`logs`)` - lists of external links to the software featuring no wikilinks Android (mobile phone platform) `(\|`talk`\|`history`\|`links`\|`watch`\|`logs`)` - lists a lot of external links that should not be removed.. but rather cited inside text...They are links to good websites like Info Week, etc.,etc., hence should be cited within the article. Mugunth 04:16, 6 November 2007 (UTC) Immigration `(\|`talk`\|`history`\|`links`\|`watch`\|`logs`)` - 24 external links Intelligent vehicle technologies `(\|`talk`\|`history`\|`links`\|`watch`\|`logs`)` - Looking for a third opinion on some of the links in the article that appear to be commercial firms. Trying to avoid an edit war.

Cleaned articles

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

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.

WikiProject External links

Wikipedia:WikiProject External links's list of external links is being reviewed as part of WikiProject External links — a quality control effort aimed at keeping the number of links to a reasonable length, and in compliance with Wikipedia External links guidelines. Wikipedia is NOT a link repository.

WikiProject External links tasks you can do:

{{Cleanup-spam}}

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!)

{{External links}}

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

<!--===========================({{NoMoreLinks}})===============================-->
<!--| DO NOT ADD MORE LINKS TO THIS ARTICLE. WIKIPEDIA IS NOT A COLLECTION OF |-->
<!--| LINKS. If you think that your link might be useful, do not add it here, |-->
<!--| but put it on this article's discussion page first or submit your link  |-->
<!--| to the appropriate category at the Open Directory Project (www.dmoz.org)|-->
<!--| and link back to that category using the {{dmoz}} template.             |-->
<!--|                                                                         |-->
<!--|           Links that have not been verified WILL BE DELETED.            |-->
<!--|  See [[Wikipedia:External links]] and [[Wikipedia:Spam]] for details    |-->
<!--===========================({{NoMoreLinks}})===============================-->

{{Wikipedia:WikiProject External links/Ad}}

{{subst:Wikipedia:WikiProject External links/Welcome}} - a template to welcome new participants to the project

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, ~~~~

WikiProject External links tasks you can do:

Userbox

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