User talk:PolyGnome

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Good luck! JFW | T@lk 07:57, 4 Nov 2004 (UTC)

About External Links

PS In what sense do you feel that every article needs an external reference? This may not always be necessary and - on many occasions - just adding to the clutter. Please see this page for some views I personally hold on external link proliferation.

Hmm. You make sense. I'll try to be careful in future. Primarily it's a practice task to familiarise myself with editing wikipedia regularly as a registered user. PolyGnome

Ah, to meet with approval! :-) Your spelling suggests UK or Australia... When it comes to references, stuff that has been peer-reviewed or otherwise verified is highly desireable over "regular" internet references. You may be interested in Wikiproject "Fact & Reference Check". JFW | T@lk 09:20, 4 Nov 2004 (UTC)