User talk:Adrianbrodal

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Welcome

Hi, I saw the recent run in with another editor: as you're an new editor I'd like to apologize on behalf of the community. Whether or not the IRIN link should be added to all national articles, you're clearly trying to improve the project, and for that: thanks!

Some folks (myself included) sometimes get a bit of tunnel vision, especially given the amount of vandalism that goes on.

In short: please don't let this sour you on the Wikipedia project, and I hope you contribute in the future. Thanks again T L Miles (talk) 18:16, 23 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hi. For good or ill, Wikipedia has a guideline for just about everything: take a look at Wikipedia:External_links. More importantly, we have to do this collaboratively. And as there are no fast answers in the guideline, but I would suggest that since the IRIN site is not directed immediately at the specific article, and (perhaps more importantly) since you already seem to be working against consensus that we drop it at least for the moment. It's certainly not spam, but -- especially for such a broad topic as nations -- if we included every useful link we'd be in a mess.

Anyway, most everything around here is your call, but just be careful of edit wars. Sometimes its best to cut your losses and move on to something with a bit more community support. Best of luck whatever you decide. (Tommy) T L Miles (talk) 13:51, 24 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]