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Best regards, Tkotc (talk) 07:33, 17 February 2011 (UTC).

Re Joshua's Tract article. I forgot to mention there that the reference to something.blogspot.com will probably be frowned upon, the reason being that blogs are not seen as "reliable" sources. Watch out for that. No blogs, no Youtube, no forums. Tkotc (talk) 07:33, 17 February 2011 (UTC)

There's a new note on Requests for Feedback on your article, about the way you did the references in the article. The reviewer refers to the External Links guideline page. Personally I found that page a bit confusing, because it seems to say you shouldn't refer to external sites in the body of an article. But of course they do want links to external sites in the body of articles! The issue is that they want them formatted as references. Anyhow, while watching movie reruns, I redid all those external links to references using citation templates. I'd have to say I have mixed feelings about some of them. Not saying you should change things, but... In the article if a word, name, or phrase has a wikipedia page, we wikilink just to help establish a web of related information. But references should be support for a specific factual claim made. So if you say Organization X gave Entity Y an award, when you set up a reference for that, the page you refer to should in fact say "Organization X gave Entity Y an award." In some cases, your (what are now references) don't do that. They just link to the organization named. See the distinction? So if there were a Wikipedia article about some of these entities, you could just wikilink the mention of the name. In fact, maybe there are Wikipeida articles for some of them, in which case you could redo one of those "iffy" references to a clearly acceptable Wikilink. Otherwise I'm not suggesting changing anything unless someone gripes. Tkotc (talk) 07:02, 19 February 2011 (UTC)

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