User talk:Cathal9

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Royal Dutch Shell
On a more practical note, your edits to Royal Dutch Shell were reverted for several reasons. The most general bases of my revert were policies that are applicable site-wide - The Wikipedia is not a list of indiscriminate links that are only tangentially related to an article's text, and the links were just a hair malformatted. Check out WP:EL for our guidelines and a guide to link syntax, but here's how a basic external link should look:

* Text like This here's link.af

The more specific reason was that the criticism of Shell has grown to the point where it required a WP:SPLIT off of the main article. As a result, expansions of the criticism on Royal Dutch Shell's main article are generally discouraged until made on the new parent article for said criticisms, as the section on Royal Dutch Shell is now intended as a summary of its main article: Controversies surrounding Royal Dutch Shell. I would advise you to take your links and any press coverage for them that you can muster and use them to make reliably sourced additions to the Controversies article instead of droppin' them back into External links. Happy editing, MrZaius  talk  17:29, 31 July 2007 (UTC)