User talk:Torla42

Additions to "External links" sections
Please read the guideline on external links, and note that Wikipedia style is not, as you are doing, to provide anything other than (basically) a title for external links. (Please shorten the length of external link entries you add from now on.)

In addition, external links should be listed in order of importance. So, in the Sam Wyly article, for example, an external link to a personal website is much more important than an external link to an interview; the interview link should not come first.

Finally, keep in mind that (a) a source used for a citation (footnote) shouldn't (normally) also be in the external links section, and (b) a source that isn't important enough to go into the external links section, and isn't already used as a citation, can still be added to the article, in a "Further reading" section (see WP:GTL). -- John Broughton (♫♫) 19:04, 16 June 2008 (UTC)

Just FYI
You usually want to use the names of articles that don't have underscores when adding wikilinks to articles. Robert K S (talk) 01:00, 4 November 2009 (UTC)

Self-links
Please, do not link from an article to itself, as you did in this edit. — Emil J. 13:21, 9 November 2009 (UTC)

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Thanks for the Paul Baran edit
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