Talk:Thought for the Day

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[edit] Inclusion of Platitude of the Day link

According to WP:Notability "Notability guidelines give guidance on whether a topic is notable enough to be included in Wikipedia as a separate article, but do not specifically regulate the content of articles", so notability is not the correct criteria to determine whether a link should be included.

As far as I can tell it might match Wikipedia:EXT#Links_normally_to_be_avoided point 12 "Links to blogs and personal web pages, except those written by a recognized authority". I'm not sure how "recognized authority" is meant to be interpreted. Is anyone aware of any more detail on "recognized authority"?

Speaking as an atheist / agnostic with an interest in Thought for the Day, the site provides a valuable analysis of the Thought of the Day thoughts from an non faith perspective presented in the form of a mild parody. I am sensitive to the fact that some may find this offensive, but it is not Wikipedia policy to censor content because some users may find the content offensive (see Wikipedia:WikiProject_Islam/Images_of_Muhammad for a recent example of this). I consider the link to be valuable and relevant as it provides relevant information on the response to the TftD restriction on non religious thoughts.

I've tried to amend the text that was used to provide more explanation of what the site is for, and why it is relevant. Perhaps we could work on tidying that up a bit. I think it's NPOV at the moment, but please edit it if you disagree. --Robhu 17:33, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

That would seem more appropriate than creating a separate topic at this time. Neilplatform1 13:41, 1 March 2008 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Neilplatform1 (talk • contribs)

Neilplatform1 - are you saying that you think the article would be better with the Criticism heading removed? I added the heading after I made the comments here about the include of the link. --Robhu 18:05, 1 March 2008 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Robhu (talk • contribs)