User talk:Ferntowerpoet

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Please could you explain whether you have any link to Intelligent Giving (to which you have added a couple of links)? Thanks --BozMo talk 15:20, 5 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Not formally, though I do know the people involved and contribute regularly to their site. I spotted that they'd been linked to elsewhere (at Age Concern, for example), so assumed further links would be OK. If they're not, then I'll take them down. I hope my more substantive edits, though, are useful? Ferntowerpoet 15:33, 5 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Unfortunately most of the links were added in a "campaign" see Special:Contributions/EphraimL and are therefore a bit "on probation" as it were... people take a dim view of editors who basically only add links. Personally I like IG, and think its notable (and I think the 3rd sector in the UK needs a good kick up the backside, I've been on their discussion groups too) but other charity review sites aren't systematically linked to from relevant article pages. Editorials which have been the subject of third party news coverage are definitely linkable in my view: systematic links to relevant page probably not... --BozMo talk 17:30, 5 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Thanks for that; I wasn't aware. I'll certainly bear it in mind in the future. Ferntowerpoet 18:10, 5 April 2007 (UTC)
 * No problem. On your other comment, yes I think the rest of your contributions were good and I would encourage you to carry on. The UK charity sector is very weak in Wikipedia and their are only five or six regular editors in it. Even just agreeing what standard info to include would help, --BozMo talk 18:47, 5 April 2007 (UTC)