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Hi Juds, I got your message on my talk page. Since the website in question actually has an information page, I changed the link to that page instead of the "join the chat" page. I can't guarantee anything; groups.msn.com is on the linkspam watchlists. But it's an obscure article, and maybe the de-spam folks will actually click the link and decide that it's "close enough" to being encyclopedic.

If it does get rejected, I've seen one page (can't remember which one) that had a note on the Talk page (that is, not in the article itself) that simply said, "This article was written and is supported by the people at <insert link here> discussion group for this disease." I thought it was a clever solution, and I haven't seen any complaints about that approach. I think, if you want, you can also create your own user page and explain about your involvement there. WhatamIdoing (talk) 22:30, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

Hello WhatamIdoing, Thank you for your help. I have taken your suggestions and created my user page, as well as adding a note on the Talk Page for the article. Juds/SOMPeople SOMPeople (talk) 01:22, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

Updated link

Hi SOMPeople! Thanks for your recent e-mail message. I've updated the Superior oblique myokymia article with the best of the links, which I thought was www.SOMPeople.org. Organizations are generally limited to one link, and sites that host a lot of internet discussion forums tend to end up on the spam blacklist, so this is also probably the safest link. Best of luck to you! WhatamIdoing (talk) 17:37, 15 January 2009 (UTC)