User:Just zis Guy, you know?/Linkspam

As per User:Just zis Guy, you know?/Fisheaters, I am reviewing the linked sites to ensure they remain fish-free, but also to document my previous impression that several of them are also infested by blogs, Myspace pages, Geocities and other such cruft. Some of this is discussed at WikiProject Spam.

What the policy says
WP:EL gives the following major justifications for linking::

What should be linked to

 * 1) Articles about any organization, person, or other entity should link to their official site, if they have one.
 * 2) Sites that have been cited or used as references in the creation of an article. Intellectual honesty requires that any site actually used as a reference be cited. See Verifiability.
 * 3) An article about a book, a musical score, a webcomic, a web site, or some other media, should link to the actual book, musical score, etc. if possible.
 * 4) On articles with multiple Points of View, a link to sites dedicated to each, with a detailed explanation of each link.  The number of links dedicated to one POV should not overwhelm the number dedicated to any other.  One should attempt to add comments to these links informing the reader of their point of view.
 * 5) Sites that contain neutral and accurate material not already in the article. Ideally this content should be integrated into the Wikipedia article, then the link would remain as a reference.
 * 6) Sites with other meaningful, relevant content that is not suitable for inclusion in an article, such as textbooks or reviews.

I interpret the "articles with multiple points of view" as meaning one or two liks to leading authorities on each side of a disputed topic. Where the topic is itself a discussion of the dissenting view (e.g. Traditionalist Catholic) I am not sure this is necessary, since a balanced discussion within Wikipedia is probably better than links to dozens of personal pages and sites which amount to "I think that too".

Excessive links
Here are some articles I think are likely suffering from an excess of vanispamcruft links:

To do

 * Apologetics (Talk:Apologetics)
 * Baptism (Talk:Baptism)
 * Candlemas (Talk:Candlemas)
 * Christmas (Talk:Christmas)
 * Fathers' rights (Talk:Fathers' rights), pruning suggested by User:Rhobite on 18 Dec, no action taken yet.
 * Novus Ordo Missae (Talk:Novus Ordo Missae)
 * Rapture
 * Second Vatican Council (Talk:Second Vatican Council)

In progress

 * Eucharist (Talk:Eucharist)
 * Icon (Talk:Icon)
 * Halloween (Talk:Halloween)

Done

 * Antichrist (Talk:Antichrist)
 * Catholic (Talk:Catholic)
 * Catholicism (Talk:Catholicism)
 * Christian symbolism (Talk:Christian symbolism) - well referenced links.
 * Dispensationalism (Talk:Dispensationalism)
 * Easter (Talk:Easter)
 * End times (Talk:End times)
 * Funeral (Talk:Funeral)
 * Good Friday (Talk:Good Friday)
 * Holy Orders (Talk:Holy Orders)
 * Iron Man (Talk:Iron Man)
 * John Byrne (Talk:John Byrne)
 * Mary, the mother of Jesus (Talk:Mary, the mother of Jesus) : All links restored by an anon who assumed he'd deleted them by mistakk, no discussion on Talk as yet.
 * Marriage (Talk:Marriage)
 * Modesty (Talk:Modesty) - I removed the lot as I culdn't find one that looked to satisfy WP:EL. Lots of POV, some spam, but no good authorities.
 * Noahide Laws (Talk:Noahide Laws)
 * Papal Oath (Talk:Papal Oath)
 * Sacrament (Talk:Sacrament)
 * Saint Joseph
 * Saint Patrick (Talk:Saint Patrick)
 * The Passion of the Christ (Talk:The Passion of the Christ)
 * Traditionalist Catholic (Talk:Traditionalist Catholic) - a whole section devoted to different offsite forks
 * Votive deposit (Talk:Votive deposit) - one link removed as an apparent tangent (and a monograph at that)
 * World Championship Wrestling (Talk:World Championship Wrestling)

Bare or undescribed links
Here are some where I think links should be contextualised per WP:EL::
 * Anointing of the Sick (Talk:Anointing of the Sick)