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certain standards for our own external links; lists of external links are supposed to be relevant to the article content. For another, DMOZ has some issues with its editors being non-neutral in their selection (as stated in the article about them). I would strongly suggest that you stop doing this, at the very least until there has been some discussion about it. I've made a request on
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Spryde - so far, no one seems to have challenged my removal of the external links. If someone does do that for a particular breed, I will discuss it with that person in the relevant discussion page and arrive at a consensus. I have seen several other dog breed pages on
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Replacing all external links with a single link to the DMOZ category may be against our guidelines and certainly doesn't appear to be standard. It is potentially problematic for several reasons. For one thing, we can't control what DMOZ chooses to include in their lists of links, and we have
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In many cases, however, we're better off just deleting the spam (and lists of local/regional dog clubs is spam for these purposes) and skipping the DMOZ link.
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External Links section even before I joined Knowledge (XXG). In any case, thanks for the heads up on this. I appreciate it.
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Replacing external links with a carefully chosen DMOZ category is certainly not against the guidelines. In fact, it is specifically authorized in
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You may want to discuss some of the external link removals. Some of the dog pages are pretty fiercely defended and you may be in for a battle.
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