User talk:Badabimboom
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[edit]Hello, Badabimboom, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Unfortunately, one or more of your recent edits to the page Drag (clothing) did not conform to Wikipedia's verifiability policy, and may have been removed. Wikipedia articles should refer only to facts and interpretations verified in reliable, reputable print or online sources or in other reliable media. Always provide a reliable source for quotations and for any material that is likely to be challenged, or it may be removed. Wikipedia also has a related policy against including original research in articles.
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Using links in articles
[edit]Thanks for your edits to Montreal. I replacced a couple of external links you added, with wikilinks instead. You had the right instinct: the first sentence of Wikipedia's Manual of Style on linking says:"Linking through hyperlinks is an important feature of Wikipedia. Internal links bind the project together into an interconnected whole." That said, in Wikipedia articles, we link to other Wikipedia articles in line, not to websites outside of Wikipedia. So for example:
- we could use:
[[Montreal International Jazz Festival]]– this is okay, because it is a wikilink. - we don't use:
[https://www.montrealjazzfest.com/en Montreal International Jazz Festival]– because this is contrary to the guideline on the use of external links.
Also, generally, a link should appear only once in an article, so you didn't need to link the Jazz Festival again in the § Culture section. (There's an optional External links section in some articles, where a small number of external links may be permitted.) Hope this helps, Mathglot (talk) 18:47, 26 July 2022 (UTC)
- thanks!! <3 Badabimboom (talk) 00:44, 28 July 2022 (UTC)