Ericdrummond
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Your Appalachia links edit
Great links, by the way. Thanks for adding them. Unfortunately I had to delete the hillbillysavants blog because it doesn't meet the external links guideline, which is too bad, because it's one of the best blogs I've seen.
Also, unfortunately, when I deleted the blog link, something went wrong with my edit summary and all that ended up in the article history was the somewhat sarcastic "try again", instead of the comment I thought I'd pasted in to the effect of "great blog, but see the guideline". I was appalled.
Anyway, welcome and I look forward to your further additions, especially to the Appalachia-related articles.
--A. B. 23:34, 30 November 2006 (UTC)
- Hi. More good links! Unfortunately, there are getting to be too many -- see the external links guideline. We should probably have no more than a handful of links, total. Also see this essay, Wikipedia:Spam Event Horizon. If we get too many links, then we start drawing really inappropriate stuff. --A. B. 12:02, 1 December 2006 (UTC)