Btm1

I added an external link to a definition in place of an incorrect link to a Wikipedia page. That is, the definition did not exist in Wikopedia so the author had linked to instead a definition of a related term, but which was not correct for the term in question.

Is this permissable? Is there a Wikipedia policy on using external links where a Wikipedia article is not yet written? Because the linked page is not controlled by Wikipedia, it could become a dead link. It could have been better to copy the information from the link into a Wikipedia page, but then that could raise the issues of plagiarism and of intellectual property rights.

era format

To answer your question here, please see WP:ERA.

Different era formats are treated on equal footing with spelling variants of British vs. US English: There is no wiki-wide preference, but any single article should stick to using one or the other, not mix them. --dab (𒁳) 14:13, 25 May 2009 (UTC)

Notification: changes to "Mark my edits as minor by default" preference

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Thank you for your understanding and happy editing :) Editing on behalf of User:Jarry1250, LivingBot (talk) 22:30, 13 March 2011 (UTC)