User talk:VPDM

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Hello, VPDM, and welcome to Wikipedia! My name is Ian and I work with Wiki Education; I help support students who are editing as part of a class assignment.

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Adding of inline external links
Hi. Thank you for your contributions to the Catherine Opie article. However, you added a list of inline external links to the article. This is discouraged as per WP:EL. The External links section is the only place to really do this and even then in a limited fashion. I have thus converted your section of external links into a Collections section, which closely resembles something of what I think you were trying to achieve, and remains within policy. The Collections section always lists permanent collections at public institutions (not private, which are too difficult to source, or to keep up-to-date) that hold the subject's work, and are an important demonstration of notability (see WP:NARTIST). I have retained only those institutions that you linked to that are notable institutions. If you've any questions, please don't hesitate to ask. -Lopifalko (talk) 07:58, 10 November 2021 (UTC)

Hello, I am a student in a college course where I was instructed by my professor to make the section you removed. I was not attempting to show where the works were kept, rather giving readers an easy way to access images of the art itself, considering that is what most people are looking for when they search an artist and much of Opie's work is copyrighted and thus cannot appear in the main article. I will remake the section as a sub-section under external links so it is no longer in the body of the text. However, the guidelines are fairly vague about what is and is not "discouraged", and by all measures I believe my section fell well within the boundaries. In my opinion, it was clearly "information that could not be added to the article for reasons such as copyright" and I would hardly call ten links "lengthy". I hope my solution is a suitable compromise and that the information may stay in the article this time.