User talk:Mwalbert

Freemasonry
Hi, You recently added a link to the Grand Lodge of Tennessee to the "External Links" section of the article on Freemasonry. I have removed it, and thought you should be given a reason why. Long ago, those of us who work on this article reached a consensus that we should not link to individual Grand Lodges or individual lodges. If you think about it, there are over a hundred Grand Lodges in the world... if we linked to each of them the "External Links" section would become very very large and unwieldy. We have Masons from all over the world editing this article, and we all have pride in our respective Grand Lodges. As much as we might like to provide a link to their websites, we have to draw the line somewhere. We chose to draw it at the top. If this is a problem, please feel free to discuss the issue at the article talk page or at my talk page. Please do not let my deletion of your addition deter you from contributing in other ways... I realize that you had no way to know what our consensus was. Blueboar 16:14, 12 April 2007 (UTC)