Talk:Egremont, Cumbria

message: This link was added to the article after discussion on the WP Reliable Sources Noticeboard. See: WP:RSN exercise. No information from the CCHT link has been put into the body of the article as citations because the information has not yet been verified for 100% accuracy by the Victoria County History project for Cumbria. (This will take several years to do).  Laplacemat (talk) 11:37, 17 February 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  CCHT external link 

message: Seems to be some disagreement on appropriate links for this article. I have therefore added in a link to the "official" website, which meets the criteria of WP:EL and has a useful list of links itself. It would be helpful to those proposing links to say why you disagree rather than "rv linkspam" or "I've deleted it". It is difficult to see why linking to a local newspaper is considered so unacceptable, although linking to individual organisations is not sustainable (unless the organisation is significant enough to be mentioned in the article, ie it is something that makes the town famous outside, such as the gurning competition). Halsteadk (talk) 12:49, 29 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  External links 

message: I've protected the page for a week, because of lack of agreement in regard to the external links. I suggest that editors establish consensus on the talk page. PhilKnight (talk) 10:55, 30 July 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Are you absolutely sure the best way involves protecting the entire article from editing by every user? The article is hardly being brought to its knees by the addition or not of an external link, but as a consequence there is no opportunity to work on the important part of the article (ie all of the rest of it). I am pretty neutral on whether this link appears or not, but as you have already had your perma-banning of the user concerned rapidly overturned as heavy-handed I can't help feeling you should pass handling of this case to another administrator. Halsteadk (talk) 12:36, 30 July 2009 (UTC)

text: As far as the link itself goes, I was initially happy to have it but less so when I noticed the virtually hidden text stating the political affiliation. Yes, all papers have a political bias but unless a paper is affiliated to a political party it doesn't describe itself like this. However, the content of the newspaper itself does not appear to be overtly biased. I would suggest the link stays if there is genuinely no other newspaper for Egremont, but it must be removed if the organisation it is affiliated to loses its seat - as it could then only be a campaigning paper. Halsteadk (talk) 12:36, 30 July 2009 (UTC)

text: I agree, the protection of the page was massively inappropriate. I suggest immediate un-protection. Jeni (talk) 12:42, 30 July 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I've undone the protection. However, I still recommend that editors use the talk page to establish consensus, instead of reverting. PhilKnight (talk) 13:27, 30 July 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: And I've reblocked the user who insists on adding the link without first establishing consensus. Although I accept the protection was unusual, I'd have preferred to use protection, instead of re-blocking. PhilKnight (talk) 09:14, 31 July 2009 (UTC)

text: Looks fine to me. Thanks for adding the references. The greasy pole event takes place in the Main Street, according to this ref(p3). I'll tweak the text accordingly. Thanks. Hallucegenia (talk) 06:44, 9 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Article protection

message: I am surprised that editors here would even consider allowing an external link to any political party's free news sheet, especially with a general election due within the year. Even if the content is innocuous now that could change at any time. If one party is able to do it other parties will rightly claim the same facility, including fringe and extremist parties.
Wikipedia is not intended to be a source of information on current events. Recentism is depracated. Wikipedia is not a collection of links or a community webpage.--Charles (talk) 16:50, 30 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Newspaper or spam? 

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