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=== Guidelines for Including Links (or Not) === | === Guidelines for Including Links (or Not) === | ||
The purpose of the FamilySearch Wiki is to help users by giving them knowledge about records and methods for genealogy and family history. We need to include enough to really help. | The purpose of the FamilySearch Wiki is to help users by giving them knowledge about records and methods for genealogy and family history. We need to include enough to really help. | ||
It is NOT the Wiki's purpose to link to every website or publication that exists. That would overwhelm and clutter the Wiki and would bury important and relevant items, rather than highlight them. | It is NOT the Wiki's purpose to link to every website or publication that exists. That would overwhelm and clutter the Wiki and would bury important and relevant items, rather than highlight them. | ||
The following suggestions are to help '''you decide''' whether to add a particular link or not. | The following suggestions are to help '''you decide''' whether to add a particular link or not. Consider the ''value'' to the Wiki user, the ''locality'' or ''subject'', and the ''item'' you are linking to. | ||
'''Value to the Wiki user:''' (This is very rough, needs to be refined.)[[User:AdkinsWH|AdkinsWH]] 23:03, 17 August 2011 (UTC) These questions may help you determine a site's value for Wiki users: | '''Value to the Wiki user:''' (This is very rough, needs to be refined.)[[User:AdkinsWH|AdkinsWH]] 23:03, 17 August 2011 (UTC) These questions may help you determine a site's value for Wiki users: | ||