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Wikipedia Help!
I was looking at wkipedia and stopped to see if anything interesting had been added to the Kilt heading and saw that the link to X Marks the Scot was no longer there. 
If anyone here regularly contributes to Wikipedia could you put another link.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilt
Cheers
Jamie
-See it there, a white plume
Over the battle - A diamond in the ash
Of the ultimate combustion-My panache
Edmond Rostand
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Ok, it's done.
if the user CWood493 is reading this, Looks like we had the same idea.
Last edited by MonsterDon; 28th May 08 at 02:36 PM.
Reason: update
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-See it there, a white plume
Over the battle - A diamond in the ash
Of the ultimate combustion-My panache
Edmond Rostand
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It's a bloody conspiracy by them trousered folk.
The Grant.
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Wikipedia has some editors with some funky practices. They will not include certain entries because they aren't 'famous', as in they are only self referential. It was a big stink with webcomics having their wiki pages deleted because the editors thought they weren't famous enough.
Things like websites often fall to that same editors broom. Unless you are referenced by some other mainstream source (like a newspaper or magazine) merely having a reach in the tens of thousands on the internet is not enough.
.. the kilt had concealed a blaster strapped to one thigh and a knife to the other. He was aware of the present gentle customs against personal weapons, but he felt naked without them. Such customs were nonsense anyhow, foolishment from old women - there was no such thing as "dangerous weapons," only dangerous people.
--Robert Heinlein in Methuselah's Children
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Not that I don't think XMTS is worthy of mention... but linking to a forum such as this may be against Wikipedia policies. (A lot of this stuff is considered "linkspam" I believe.) I'm not sure if our forum would specifically violate this rule, but I know a LOT of these links are removed for that or other reasons--even though the sites referenced are handy in a lot of cases, in other cases they really are spam and Wikipedia has made some policies that may, at times, throw out the baby with the bathwater.
K=
Kyle | Fort Collins, Colorado, USA
Clan Commissioner, Clan MacLea (Livingstone) Society
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Hmm… I don't see one now… perhaps it got removed again?
- your friendly local Poor, Starving Theology Student
“Not all those who wander are lost.” — J. R. R. Tolkein
“The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but, if one will, are to be lived.” — Søren Kierkegaard
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It appears that someone is getting a bit pissy with the links. There might be a bit of a fight over this.
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The Wikipedia guidelines for external linking are at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:EL
Under "Links normally to be avoided" it includes "10. Links to social networking sites (such as MySpace or Fan sites), discussion forums/groups (such as Yahoo! Groups), USENET newsgroups or e-mail lists".
I believe this is the reason it is being removed.
It was removed by user "Bridies", who quoted "(forums/fansites)" in their notes.
KP
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29th May 08, 01:00 AM
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That's too bad. I'm the one who linked X Marks originally.
It's sad, a lot of links used to be provided, but now there are only three there...
-Greg Long
Whisky Buyer, Vom Fass USA
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