Talk:List of unions affiliated with the AFL-CIO

A fact from List of unions affiliated with the AFL-CIO appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 26 September 2009 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the AFL-CIO gained its latest member union when the 265,000-member UNITE HERE reaffiliated on September 16, 2009?

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Web site linking

Providing a link to every single union's Web site runs afoul of Wikipedia:External links in several ways. Under "Important points to remember," #2 says "External links should not normally be used in the body of an article." Under "Official links," "Minimize the number of links" concludes: "Wikipedia does not provide a comprehensive web directory to every official website. Wikipedia does not attempt to document or provide links to every part of the subject's web presence or provide readers with a handy list of all social networking sites. Complete directories lead to clutter and to placing undue emphasis on what the subject says." Additionally, it runs afoul of WP:LINKFARM and WP:NOTDIRECTORY. In other words, Wikipedia doesn't exist to be a way of finding AFL-CIO member union Web sites. Official sites exist to provide more information on the article. Linking to each union's site doesn't add information to the encyclopedia article discussing AFL-CIO membership criteria, or establish the number or names of member unions (one link to the AFl-CIO site does that). - Tim1965 (talk) 13:13, 10 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hmm, you appear to be correct. And since nearly every item on the list has an article, I can think of no argument for breaking the rule.RevelationDirect (talk) 19:31, 11 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Affiliated unions by membership

There definitely should be a table of the 56 affiliated unions by membership. Any objections to that? –MJL ‐Talk‐^☖ 02:00, 10 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]