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re: Deleted external link

Hi, no the link was fine, and the note that I left in the edit summary just means that the list of links was really excessive up until a month or so ago when it was finally reduced to a more manageable level. There are so many websites that have content that's related to the earthquake, and we can't link to them all, and so that's part of the reason for trimming it again. External links can be a maintenance problem (so many editors add them, but few of us actually look to check for unwanted content or broken links) and there's one external link directory called the Open Directory Project that has been a good thing for the external links sections of many articles, and there's a link to this directory in the external links section of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake article as it stands.

Since we're not a link directory, we can just link to them. They've got a good collection. So apologies, this is just about keeping balance in that section. I do this sort of work on many articles, so it's not something specific to this particular article. Thanks, Dawnseeker2000 23:55, 10 May 2013 (UTC)