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June 2011

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Removal of deadlinks and redlinks

You seem to be doing a lot of this, but it is not necessarily a good thing to do. We do not remove references just because the hyperlink has gone dead. The reference remains the source of the information, whether or not it can be accessed online, and in many cases it has simply been moved to another location, or can be recovered from an archive. Future editors may need this information to find the souce. You especially should not do this for printed sources, as you did here for example. Printed material can still be found in libraries.

Redlinks should not be removed just because they are redlinks, as you did here. Redlinks should only be removed if the subject is never likely to have an article. That is, if it is non-notable. SpinningSpark 00:27, 6 February 2016 (UTC)

Hi Spinningspark, Thank you for bringing this to my attention. I was unaware of these guidelines and will be mindful of removing deadlinks and redlinks moving forward.

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Manual of style

Hi - I'm Girth Summit, an administrator here. I noticed a recent edit summary of yours that indicated that you were changing text to make it compliant with the AP style guide. I haven't looked at the edit in detail, but I wanted to make you aware that we follow our own manual of style, not any third party style guides. I'm not saying that your changes were incorrect, just making sure that you understand what we are aiming for. Cheers Girth Summit _(blether) 18:25, 22 August 2022 (UTC)

As an afterthought, having looked at a few more of your edit summaries, you may wish to be aware that the Oxford comma is permitted here. They aren't required - it boils down to whether or not they're used consistently throughout an article. You shouldn't remove them on sight, you should check to see whether they are used throughout - don't just change them because you don't like them. See MOS:OXFORD for discussion of this. Cheers Girth Summit _(blether) 18:32, 22 August 2022 (UTC)

Thank you, Girth! This is super helpful and something that I will keep in mind moving forward when editing the pages. Appreciate you looking out! Privatechef (talk) 18:33, 22 August 2022 (UTC)

No worries. The MOS is a vast, sprawling guide, but you can usually find guidance on what you want to know by searching for it. Give me a shout if you need any help; there's also WP:GOCE, which you might be interested in. Girth Summit _(blether) 18:37, 22 August 2022 (UTC)

Oh yeah - I just looked, MOS:US seems to say that the abbreviation is fine. Girth Summit _(blether) 18:40, 22 August 2022 (UTC)

OLINK

As an extension to the above, and noting again that Wikipedia's manual of style is less-than-succinct, you may want to take a quick look at the MOS:OL guideline. Which confirms that linking of large geographical topics (countries like the United States or continents like North America) are "usually not linked". Except in those (often less common) cases where the linked topic is of particular relevance to the context in the article. (Like "The United States of America [..] is a country primarily located in North America... Guliolopez (talk) 20:13, 5 September 2023 (UTC)

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