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Hatnotes

Please read WP:NAMB before adding any more links to dab pages. They should only be used when there is potential ambiguity in the article title. Somebody reading Cyrus B. Lower does not care about other people with the same surname, so a hatnote serves no purpose. —Xezbeth (talk) 11:37, 1 August 2016 (UTC)

• Thank you very much for your comment, and in particular for the link to an explanation of hatnotes. I didn't even know of the term hatnote before, as until recently I have only been a sporadic contributor (really a subeditor) of Wikipedia, mainly correcting spelling errors and grammar. My focus is on Wikiversity where I am striving to create an Informal learning activities resource that is a front end mainly to Wikipedia intended to encourage wandering through the richness of Wikipedia's content. (This resource is only in the early stages of development.)

  The reason I have been adding hatnotes is because I wanted to provide for wanderers from Wikiversity who have looked into, for example, someone with a particular surname to easily look into other uses of that surname, either as a surname or as a placename. I would be pleased to have your approval of this objective and/or any suggestions for another way to achieve my objective.

  Again, thank you for WP:NAMB as, if I do go on adding hatnotes I can find out there how to do it much better than I have been doing. (I assume that a dab page is a disambiguation page; most of my hatnotes so far have been to other kinds of pages where often my hatnote would point to a dab page or to a page that actually disambiguates though this is not mentioned in its name.)—Wnholmes (talk) 09:27, 2 August 2016 (UTC)

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External links

I saw your request for help, and have some tangential comments about external links in general, assuming that this is typically what you are adding: Overall if the link you want to add is not offering new information, specific to the topic of the article, that cannot be incorporated into the article directly, then it's likely a good choice. Also remember that internal links are preferred to external ones. --Ronz (talk) 16:28, 2 February 2017 (UTC)

Open Library links

Hello, thanks for adding Open Library links to authors. However, it's better to use the {{OL author}} template to do this, as I did at Francis Marion Crawford. Ideally, the Open Library ID should be stored in Wikidata (you can add it there if necessary) so the template may not even need any parameters, as is the case in the Francis Marion Crawford example. Graham87 08:31, 26 February 2017 (UTC)

• Thank you very much for the information. I asked some time ago for a simple OL template because I had seen one but it looked too complicated for me to use. It's the same one but I had not been able to find out how to use it simply. I will from now on. Wnholmes (talk) 10:05, 26 February 2017 (UTC)

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Project Gutenberg : reverts

You'll excuse me for having taken a stroll through your recent edits. First, content in articles should not be based on primary sources (such as a book written by the article subject being used to support "Article subject wrote [book]"). Additionally, further reading content should usually point to recent sources (or at least seminal works if they're not particularly recent), such as accepted scholarship in its field. Books from over a century ago (such as what you can find on Project Gutenberg - blame US copyright laws...) are unlikely to be such sources, except the maybe very exceptional ones (of the kind that they're more likely to have an article about themselves, such as Darwin's On the origin of species). Also, I'll note that, while Project Gutenberg might be a great project, it's not WP's job to promote it. Like images, external links should be used with moderation and especially not simply because they exist. See full guidance here. Cheers, and keep up the good work, RandomCanadian (talk / contribs) 04:07, 3 August 2021 (UTC)

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Hello! I wanted to let you know that when you're adding links to other Wikipedia articles, you don't have to put the full URL. Links to other articles can be written with double brackets, so if you add [[Napoleon Bonaparte]], it creates the link Napoleon Bonaparte. Thebiguglyalien (talk) 01:44, 11 July 2024 (UTC)