User talk:Cneeds/Showcase website

I have linked several websites in the examples section on this article. Is it necessary or even good protocol to ask the respective webmasters if they mind these links before I submit the article? Or they will be quite happy to have free backlinks?

Cneeds (talk) 19:50, 15 January 2012 (UTC)


 * Well, there's two parts to my answer. The first is that, no, you don't need to ask any outside website you link to. Having said that, though, the answer to the question that you didn't ask is that you can't link to those sites anyway. Per WP:EL, which is our guideline on external links, we want to minimize the number of external links we provide in articles (the primary exception comes in references, which doesn't apply here).  The only thing that could be externally linked on this article would be some sort of expert source (maybe a technical explanation by a university professor in computer design on what a showcase site is) that talked about showcase sites in general. We never provide links to "examples" of what we're talking about.  And any external links we do have should be in a separate section of the article under the section title, "External links".  Having looked at your draft, I don't think that any of the links you provided will meet WP:EL. Qwyrxian (talk) 03:06, 16 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Oh, I'm glad I asked! Wish I had asked earlier though :-(
 * Would you suggest I either create an info box for my webpage examples
 * or should I show thumbnails of each website example (as opposed to links)? Cneeds (talk) 15:28, 26 January 2012 (UTC)


 * In this case, neither would be appropriate. Basically, examples should fall into one of two categories:
 * They're sufficiently notable to have WP articles of their own. In this case, just include them (with wikilinks) in a paragraph as part of the text; anyone interested can follow the link.
 * They're insufficiently notable to have WP articles of their own. If this is the case, don't mention them.
 * Something else to keep in mind: I didn't delve deeply into the references, but unless they specifically use the term showcase website, they're likely to not be considered applicable. Dori ☾Talk ⁘ Contribs☽ 18:08, 26 January 2012 (UTC)

Notes to Cneeds:

 * 1) When submitting this page change links back from
 * 2) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Website#suggestions
 * 3) User:Cneeds/verybest
 * 4) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Review_site#See_also
 * 5) and, of course from here to
 * 6) verybest

Cneeds (talk) 18:12, 11 January 2012 (UTC)