User talk:Bibliopegist
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[edit] External links
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- the links are appropriate, you are out of line —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Bibliopegist (talk • contribs) .
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- That's a standard template above (Template:Spam), sorry, I was rushing out the door and didnt have time to compose an individual explanation.
- If you check the history for Bookbinding, you'll see the explanations we gave for removing the links. "Perhaps one link to a list of truly important books might be justified". The concern is that you keep adding multiple links to the same site. There were 6 of them at one point. If you had a single url that has it's own table of contents, that would be appropriate to add. Otherwise the external links section (of any article) can quickly become absolutely huge, if every relavant internet page is linked to.
- I hope that's all a little clearer. Your comments at the talk:Bookbinding page would be welcome, and contributing content to the article itself would be even more welcome :) Thanks. --Quiddity 02:52, 10 October 2006 (UTC)
