User talk:Kyried

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[edit] National Dissemination Center for Children with Disabilities

This is an automated message from CorenSearchBot. I have performed a web search with the contents of National Dissemination Center for Children with Disabilities, and it appears to include a substantial copy of http://www.nichcy.org/about.htm. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material; such additions will be deleted. You may use external websites as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences.

This message was placed automatically, and it is possible that the bot is confused and found similarity where none actually exists. If that is the case, you can remove the tag from the article and it would be appreciated if you could drop a note on the maintainer's talk page. CorenSearchBot 13:34, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

I've responded to your comment on my talk page. — Coren (talk) 13:42, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] External links

Welcome!

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[edit] External links

Kyried, I've noticed you adding external links to lots of medical articles. The help sheets at National Dissemination Center for Children with Disabilities are too brief to meet our guidelines. Most of our articles are more comprehensive that these fact sheets (or should be). I shall be removing them shortly. If you wish to discuss this, you can leave a message on my talk page or the talk page of WikiProject Medicine.

Rather than adding external links, Wikipedia is best served by you adding content, such as you have done on National Dissemination Center for Children with Disabilities.

Cheers, Colin°Talk 17:55, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

BTW: Some of the "Resource pages", such as those for autism and learning disabilities might be suitable links (I see the autism one is already linked). If you are associated with NICHY, there may be a conflict of interest. In this case, it would be beter if you suggest external links to NICHY on the talk pages of the relevant article, or at a project page such as the talk page of WikiProject Medicine (see above). Colin°Talk 18:15, 10 September 2007 (UTC)


Wikipedia's pages on disabilities should not be restricted to just medical aspects. Social and educational issues are important too. If you have access to quality published text on these issues, please consider adding to the content of the articles and use those pages as sources (see WP:CITE). However, you must remember that this is the International English Wikipedia and so information that is US-only may unbalance an article. If this is an area that interests you, you might like to research how other (particularly English-speaking) countries handle the issue by researching on the Internet, etc. Then you can write about the subject in a balanced way. Also remember that WP is an encyclopaedia, not a disability resource. Being "helpful" is not its concern, no matter how worthy that idea is. If WP linked to all support organisations, there would be no room for facts!

Many articles already have too many "worthy" external links. Therefore, it is best not to "learn by example" in this regard, but to read up on the guidelines. Generally, the addition solely of external links (and "See also" internal links) is discouraged. Repeatedly adding external links (SPAMing Wikipedia), even with a worthy site, will attract negative attention your way. Content is what we want. If people want to find web sites and organisations, Google does a pretty fine job. Colin°Talk 20:40, 10 September 2007 (UTC)