User talk:EV stuff
A belated welcome![edit]
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I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Again, welcome! JarrahTree 02:09, 27 April 2024 (UTC) Constant314 (talk) 01:58, 27 April 2024 (UTC)
Please stop deleting material because it's repeated in an infobox[edit]
Please stop deleting material because it's repeated in an infobox. An infobox is supposed to be a summary of critical information about a topic and it's completely natural and expected that it will duplicate a lot of information already in the article. Thanks! ElKevbo (talk) 14:45, 27 April 2024 (UTC)
- I'm only deleting excessive external links that are duplicated in infoboxes. EV stuff (talk) 14:47, 27 April 2024 (UTC)
- "More than one official link should be provided only when the additional links provide the reader with significant unique content and are not prominently linked from other official websites." EV stuff (talk) 14:49, 27 April 2024 (UTC)
- That is talking about an attempt to include multiple "official links" in an article, not to the same link being used in the infobox and in the "External links" section. If you're referring to the links to the athletics website that are often in the "External links" section of articles about colleges and universities, those are (a) linking to a different website and (b) the subject of specific discussion and consensus among editors (although I'd have to dig up where and when that most recently occurred - my recollection is that it was several years ago and likely at WT:UNI). ElKevbo (talk) 15:50, 27 April 2024 (UTC)
- Searching those talk archives for "external links" brings up your discussion at talk:Wichita_State_University/Archive_1#External_Link_section, with two for and two against including those links. I don't specifically note if they're links to athletics teams or otherwise, it only matters if they're encyclopedic, so you can consider it three against keeping them. Of course, I won't edit-war about it, but please mind that there's no consensus for inclusion, as far as I could find. If anything, the consensus on Wikipedia is for encyclopedic external links only. A general athletics team page is not very encyclopedic for a university article, but I don't specifically focus on those anyway.
So, in fairness, I can't find a consensus for inclusion and the general Wikipedia consensus is encyclopedic links only. So I'd ask you not to revert my other removed links, and of course I won't edit-war about links restored in this or that article. EV stuff (talk) 17:25, 27 April 2024 (UTC)
- Searching those talk archives for "external links" brings up your discussion at talk:Wichita_State_University/Archive_1#External_Link_section, with two for and two against including those links. I don't specifically note if they're links to athletics teams or otherwise, it only matters if they're encyclopedic, so you can consider it three against keeping them. Of course, I won't edit-war about it, but please mind that there's no consensus for inclusion, as far as I could find. If anything, the consensus on Wikipedia is for encyclopedic external links only. A general athletics team page is not very encyclopedic for a university article, but I don't specifically focus on those anyway.
- That is talking about an attempt to include multiple "official links" in an article, not to the same link being used in the infobox and in the "External links" section. If you're referring to the links to the athletics website that are often in the "External links" section of articles about colleges and universities, those are (a) linking to a different website and (b) the subject of specific discussion and consensus among editors (although I'd have to dig up where and when that most recently occurred - my recollection is that it was several years ago and likely at WT:UNI). ElKevbo (talk) 15:50, 27 April 2024 (UTC)
I'm here as well to say I've reverted multiple of your edits because you're deleting links from External links just because they're in the infobox. The article must be able to stand along without the infobox. It's perfectly acceptable, and in fact normal and encouraged, for the official link to be in both the infobox (which is an addition to the article not a replacement for the article) and the External links section. Additionally please stop changing links in infoboxes that are supposed to be URL template to Official website template when the infobox instructions state it's to be a URL. Canterbury Tail talk 17:09, 27 April 2024 (UTC)