User talk:Eliumn

Free school external links
User Veinor removed the external links on 5th October. This was due to the policy WP:NOTLINK in particular: "There is nothing wrong with adding one or more useful content-relevant links to an article; however, excessive lists can dwarf articles and detract from the purpose of Wikipedia". It's a difficult balance but if the links do not directly relate into the article text, their mass throws it off-balance, as it did in this case so I think Veinor's action was right. I hope that makes it clearer. AllyD (talk) 12:38, 26 October 2009 (UTC)

I'm sorry but this is not a sufficient reason for removing those external links to the many organizations that consider themselves 'free schools' across North America. All of the organizations that were on those links use the term 'free school' in describing themselves. As they are free, they use wikipedia as a major source of publicity for their schools as well as for networking between their schools. User Veinor has not given any good reason for selecting the couple external links that remain and deleting all of the other ones. The only reason seems to be a politically motivated reason: to try to harness the term 'free school' for his/her own school and to exclude the other schools from being able to lay claim to that term. I have raised this concern on the listserv that contains dozens of representatives of these many schools, and many people have expressed concern and anger about this issue, and we have repeatedly tried to re-add the links to our schools to this page. Therefore, I am going to mark this page as of questionable political neutrality, and I am going to call for some kind of audit by a higher-up at wikipedia to give some kind of neutral mediation.