User talk:Benjamin N Childs

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Hello Benjamin N Childs, welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Our intro page contains a lot of helpful material for new users—please check it out! If you need help, visit Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on this page and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Reconsider ! 03:01, 4 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Duke of York's Royal Military School

Thanks for your edits to the page, which included some much-needed new external link, but also made some less helpful changes.

You may want to read WP:EL which explains which external links to use and when. References to external links in Wikipedia should be to pages that support the preceding text. Not general pages about something mentioned, as you have done, for example, for NATO and Eton. Personally I see no need to provide links for these, as most readers will know what they are. If they do need links they should be to their Wikipedia pages, not to their websites. I plan to remove these links, and though I would let you know in advance. Grafen (talk) 17:15, 2 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

That's fine: you're welcome! Thanks for your help. B N Childs

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