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As per User:Just zis Guy, you know?/Fisheaters, I am reviewing the linked sites to ensure they remain fish-free, but also to document my previous impression that several of them are also infested by blogs, Myspace pages, Geocities and other such cruft. Some of this is discussed at Wikipedia:WikiProject Spam.

What the policy says[edit]

WP:EL gives the following major justifications for linking::

What should be linked to[edit]

  1. Articles about any organization, person, or other entity should link to their official site, if they have one.
  2. Sites that have been cited or used as references in the creation of an article. Intellectual honesty requires that any site actually used as a reference be cited. See Wikipedia:Verifiability.
  3. An article about a book, a musical score, a webcomic, a web site, or some other media, should link to the actual book, musical score, etc. if possible.
  4. On articles with multiple Points of View, a link to sites dedicated to each, with a detailed explanation of each link. The number of links dedicated to one POV should not overwhelm the number dedicated to any other. One should attempt to add comments to these links informing the reader of their point of view.
  5. Sites that contain neutral and accurate material not already in the article. Ideally this content should be integrated into the Wikipedia article, then the link would remain as a reference.
  6. Sites with other meaningful, relevant content that is not suitable for inclusion in an article, such as textbooks or reviews.


I interpret the "articles with multiple points of view" as meaning one or two liks to leading authorities on each side of a disputed topic. Where the topic is itself a discussion of the dissenting view (e.g. Traditionalist Catholic) I am not sure this is necessary, since a balanced discussion within Wikipedia is probably better than links to dozens of personal pages and sites which amount to "I think that too".

Excessive links[edit]

Here are some articles I think are likely suffering from an excess of vanispamcruft links:

To do[edit]

In progress[edit]

Done[edit]

Bare or undescribed links[edit]

Here are some where I think links should be contextualised per WP:EL::

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