Talk:Rochester Poets

External Links

As with another article I edited, I found that external links within text have fallen out of favor, though I see no explicit policy on this. And I do NOT agree with the reasoning behind this.

Most links are NOT "citations" but merely links to other WP pages or external pages that have useful data. As a reader, I want to be able to see that material IN the text and click on it when I choose and NOT have to scroll down to a footnote to see the link, possibly follow it, and then come back and scroll back to where I left off. And aesthetically, it's also rather unappealing to see all those numbers -- i.e. [1], [2], etc. in the text or at the bottom of the page.

There hasn't been a problem with external links within text since WP was founded. What's the problem? When did this change? -- if indeed it did. I can't find any specific guideline that says that ALL external links should be stuck at the bottom of the page. Poetavecchio (talk) 07:54, 17 January 2012 (UTC)

Here is the first sentence from Wikipedia:External links:

Wikipedia articles may include links to web pages outside Wikipedia (external links), but they should not normally be used in the body of an article.

This is not a new change. Here is a version from 2007 - see point 2 at "Points to remember". I suspect that these web addresses do not (*) belong in the article, either in the text or at the bottom. Just because an article mentions something that happens to have a website, there's no need to include that website in the article.

But first you need to show that the organisation is "notable" in the Wikipedia sense. The article needs to show that other people have thought it worthwhile to write about the organisation in reliable sources such as books, journals or respected news media. Unless this is fixed, the article is in danger of being deleted. -- John of Reading (talk) 08:59, 17 January 2012 (UTC)

(*) I have added the italicised words do not to my previous post. That's what I meant to write. Sigh. -- John of Reading (talk) 08:29, 24 January 2012 (UTC)

Related discussion on user talk page.

A discussion related to this article and all the Rochester Poets articles is also ongoing at User talk:JoannaSerah, for anyone interested. Some of it is rehashing discussions here, but may include new discussions. Too long to copy over here, so created this link to it. Thank you. -- JoannaSerah (talk) 18:06, 31 March 2012 (UTC)

Project class, importance

I do not feel that this article is a B-class for any of the projects. Mid level importance for the projects might be debatable. I think it might be somewhere in-between Low and Mid. Thank you. -- JoannaSerah (talk) 23:03, 4 April 2012 (UTC)

I've re-rated it start-class. It does not meet the b-class standards as per Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Assessment#grades guidelines. The article is not suitably referenced. There are citation-needed tags. INeverCry 02:34, 29 May 2012 (UTC)

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