Talk:Fire protection engineering

message: I have been unable to locate the reference:
"3. Cote, Arthur. "History of Fire Protection Engineering". Fire Protection Engineering."
Should it read?:
History of fire protection engineering
Author:	J Kenneth Richardson; National Fire Protection Association.; Society of Fire Protection Engineers.
Publisher:	Quincy, Mass. : National Fire Protection Association ; Bethesda, Md. : Society of Fire Protection Engineers, ©2003.
Rrwaller (talk) 15:09, 7 May 2017 (UTC)

message: What would qualify as the needed citation?  It's not too hard to link to a specific schools' webpage for the program in question, would that suffice?
63.139.220.200 (talk) 16:40, 29 October 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: As long as the webpage directly supports the claim - sure. Kilmer-san (talk) 20:12, 29 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Citations needed for academic institutions 

message: I reverted this , as they are appropriate links. Reference , section 3.1.3, 'What should be linked', "Sites that contain neutral and accurate material that cannot be integrated into the Wikipedia article due to copyright issues, amount of detail (such as professional athlete statistics, movie or television credits, interview transcripts, or online textbooks) or other reasons. " Kilmer-san (talk) 17:05, 29 April 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm sorry, but these links violate WP:ELNO #13 Sites that are only indirectly related to the article's subject. The article isn't about the schools themselves, but about the topic of fire protection engineering.  There is no material available on those pages that contains material that would result in a copyright violation if it was linked to and cited in the "references" section.  I have reremoved the links. ThemFromSpace 22:02, 29 April 2009 (UTC)

text: The detail has to be relevant to the topic at hand. Detail about the society itself should go on an article about that society, if that topic is notable. Even if it was about education the links wouldnt be appropriate.  An article like "University of Maryland Fire Protection Engeineering Program" should contain the link to the UMD FPE program, although one would be hard pressed to assert that particular article's notability. Links to specific societies shouldnt belong in general articles.  If so, we would have hundreds of links in practically every article.  Most all text-based links can be incorporated into articles and cited in the "References" section.  Links that contain copyright violations, like long lists of relevant statistics, or valuable images, should be included in the "External links" section. ThemFromSpace 04:23, 30 April 2009 (UTC)

text: The guidelines allow external use for only certain things, and corresponding organizations are not one of them.  Just because other stuff exists doesn't make it appropriate.  I'm working hard to clean up Wikipedia's links and those articles will be gotten to eventually as well. Please also see WP:NOHARM. Just because it doesn't cause harm doesn't make it right to link to.  Wikipedia isn't an indiscriminate collection of information nor is it a linkfarm. The problem now isn't with this article but with those others that you've pointed out. 02:49, 1 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Restored organization links 

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