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August 7

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Further to a recent question at the Teahouse, our article List of animal welfare groups contains several red-links, and some external links. I was under the impression that red links were deprecated in lists, as notable subjects should have their own articles written first, and external inks in any article body were also frowned upon. Is that correct? Are these rules concrete or merely discretionary? Rojomoke (talk) 10:42, 7 August 2016 (UTC)

Rojomoke see WP:LISTPURP. RegistryKey^(RegEdit) 10:54, 7 August 2016 (UTC)

I've pruned the inline URLs per WP:ELLIST and the red-linked per WP:LSC, have a look at it, Rojomoke. — Sam Sailor ^Talk! 11:21, 7 August 2016 (UTC)

The Tulsa Sound.

Little Danny Baker and Bill Davis have been grossly left out of being mentioned as true purveyors of the Tulsa Sound. Visit the Tulsa Sound label www.bisonrecords.com which is owned by Little Danny Baker. Just read and listen to the credits about Baker and you will see that he has been left out as well as Larry Bell, David Tanner and, Phil Seymour. All artists appearing on Baker's CD;s and label. I have numerous newspaper articles and photographs and recordings to prove everything mentioned in this e-mail. Baker has been a Tulsa Sound artist for 34 years. Just trying to be fair in giving credits and mention to the true Tulsa Sound innovators. Please call or write if you care to discuss this further. Thank you for your time.

Sincerely,

— Preceding unsigned comment added by 2602:306:30C5:5C00:B1FB:39F6:9212:FE83 (talk) 11:07, 7 August 2016 (UTC)

Hello, IP user. The article's talk page is the place to ask this - preferably with citations to the sources that you have (they don't have to be online, but there must be enough information that a reader can find the reference, eg in a major library). --ColinFine (talk) 17:08, 7 August 2016 (UTC)

Help:Cite errors/Cite error ref no input

Resolved

i can not edit pages of nawazuddin siddique of career so i want to know about how edit any pages recently i edit a page but there are site error shown how to remove this error of page [[[1]]] — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nek uddin (talk • contribs) 11:49, 7 August 2016 (UTC)

• @Nek uddin: Foxj has fixed it. — Sam Sailor ^Talk! 13:37, 7 August 2016 (UTC)

  Yeah, sorry, should have reported here as well! — foxj 14:00, 7 August 2016 (UTC)

Why is everyone in a rush to delete

Why was Wikipedia:WikiAfrica/Stubs/Aaron Banda deleted? Why not work to improve not to delete? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sulky mulky (talk • contribs) 21:22, 7 August 2016 (UTC)

@Sulky mulky: It looks like it was deleted after a discussion at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:WikiAfrica/Stubs/Aaron Banda. The closure says it was deleted without prejudice against the creation of a draft or mainspace article. It sounds like this was mostly housekeeping, as the article was stored in a non-standard place. If you asked either Ricky81682 or xaosflux to restore the article to draft space, they probably would; both are administrators. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 21:33, 7 August 2016 (UTC)

I'll add to that that the article in full read Aaron Banda was. I can think of no occasion where the phrase "and nothing of value was lost" has been more apposite. ‑ Iridescent 22:15, 7 August 2016 (UTC)

Sulky mulky requested restoration of Wikipedia:WikiAfrica/Stubs/Abel Tilahun at Wikipedia:Deletion review/Log/2016 August 7#Wikipedia:WikiAfrica/Stubs/Abel Tilahun. That page said Page title - is. PrimeHunter (talk) 00:40, 8 August 2016 (UTC)