Editing Incubator escapee wiki:External links (section)

== What to link ==
{{seealso|Wikipedia:External links/Perennial websites}}
There are several things that should be considered when adding an external link.
* Is the site content [[Wikipedia:Accessibility|accessible]] to the reader?
* Is the site content proper in the context of the article (useful, tasteful, informative, factual, etc.)?
* Is the link functioning and likely to remain functional?

Each link should be considered on its merits, using the following guidelines. As the number of external links in an article grows longer, assessment should become stricter. When in doubt about the appropriateness of adding new links, make a suggestion on the article's talkpage and discuss with other editors.

=== What can normally be linked <span id="What should be linked"></span> ===
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# {{anchor|YES 1}}Wikipedia articles about any organization, person, website, or other entity should link to the subject's official site, if any. See {{section link||Official links}}.
# {{anchor|YES 2}}An article about a book, a musical score, or some other media should link to a site hosting a legally distributed copy of the work, so long as none of the {{section link||Restrictions on linking}} and {{section link||Links normally to be avoided}} criteria apply.
# {{anchor|YES 3}}Sites that contain neutral and accurate material that is relevant to an encyclopedic understanding of the subject and cannot be integrated into the Wikipedia article due to copyright issues,{{Efn|This means that if you cannot include the material in the Wikipedia article because it is copyrighted, then you may link to the copyright owner's page. This '''does not''' permit you to link to any page that is violating someone else's copyright. See [[WP:COPYLINK]].}} amount of detail (such as professional athlete statistics, movie or television credits, interview transcripts, or online textbooks), or other reasons.

=== Links to be considered ===
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# {{anchor|MAYBE 1}}Professional reviews of creative works should generally be used as sources in a "Reception" section, but high-quality professional reviews which are not needed as sources for article content may be suitable for inclusion as external links, subject to the limit described in [[WP:ELNO#EL1]]. <!-- Until October 2009, this item was: For albums, movies, books, and other creative works, links to professional reviews that have not been used to [[WP:V|verify]] information about the critical reception of the work or that contain information that cannot be integrated into the Wikipedia article. -->
# {{anchor|MAYBE 2}}Very large pages, such as [[#Rich media|pages containing rich media files]], should be considered case by case. Worldwide, many use Wikipedia with a low-speed connection. Unusually large pages or ones that include file formats that will require plug-ins should be annotated as such.
# {{anchor|MAYBE 3}}A well-chosen link to a [[List of web directories|directory of websites]] or organizations. Long lists of links in articles [[WP:NOTLINK|are not acceptable]]. A directory link may be a permanent link or a temporary measure put in place while external links are being discussed on the article's talk page.
# {{anchor|MAYBE 4}}Sites that fail to meet criteria for [[WP:RS|reliable sources]] yet still contain information about the subject of the article from knowledgeable sources.
# Links to [[Wikipedia:Wikimedia sister projects|Wikimedia sister projects]] with relevant material.
# Links to [[finding aid]]s.