EllenHodges

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Hello, EllenHodges, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

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Edits to wikipedia using the RKD database

Hello EllenHodges and thanks for your good faith edits to Dutch Golden Age painters. I personally enjoy clicking on live links to public data on these painters, so I appreciate the time you take to fix broken links and add new ones. However, I saw that you recently broke a link to the RKD database from the Frans Hals page. Since the new link doesn't work for me, I can only guess what it is that you saw that you wanted to link. Instead of trying to retrace your steps, I decided to give you a tip how to avoid this in future. In the RKD entry (whether the database choice is "artists" or "images"), at the bottom of the page is a link you can use to link the page directly from a website. If you use the link from your browser, you get a link that only works for the session of your browser at that point in time. Even if the link works for you today, it will not work for you from another computer or perhaps a week from now. If you have trouble understanding what I mean, please let me know. I tried to explain this on the wikipedia page for the RKD, but apparently I haven't been very successful, as this is a common mistake. Jane (talk) 10:56, 25 January 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for letting me know, I've already fixed the link I accidentally broke. I used the Google translator to understand what this meant "Gebruik de volgende URL om deze pagina vanuit uw website te linken:" and now I have a better grasp on how the RKD links work. Thanks again. EllenHodges (talk) 13:21, 25 January 2011 (UTC)

Excellent! and thanks to you, too! Jane (talk) 13:28, 25 January 2011 (UTC)

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