Camera-wiki.org:External links

External links are an important part of a good article. The external links should reside in a special section of the article, appropriately called Links or something similar. You should use the following syntax to insert an external link: [link_url link_name]. The result looks like this: Camerapedia website. It is recommended to mention the language of the linked page if it is not written in English.

Links to a page which is not the main page of a website are allowed, provided the link to the main page is given too. For example: article at Camerapedia. This also applies to the links pointing to a single frame inside a page. The links directly pointing to an image or to a pdf document are discouraged, but may be allowed on a case-by-case basis, for example if the document is impossible to find by someone who reads English only.

External links should provide valuable information about the main subject of the page; the usual practice at Camerapedia is to interpret this in a somewhat broad meaning. The information may consist of a single photograph of a rare camera, or a textual piece of information about a camera which does not appear elsewhere. Pages only containing sample photographs taken with a particular camera are allowed only if the camera is rarely used by today's photographers and few people know how to use it; this might apply for example to a 1920s camera or to modern cameras whose construction is unusual, but does not apply to a regular point-and-shoot or SLR from the 1970s onwards, digital or analog.

Here are examples of links which are discouraged:

• text-only pages which do not give any new information;
• pages containing bad or regular pictures of a very common camera and not other new information;
• pages only containing sample photographs taken with a very common camera.

Links pointing to a commercial website, which sells new or used photographic products, is prohibited (unless it is part of a picture credit).