Talk:Arms-to-Iraq

Improving this page

This page could do with improvement by someone familiar with this affair. It contains a (deprecated) "See Also" section - it is preferable to include references to these people/events in the text. Some of the links don't even have a page. Plenty of work to be done, especially if new evidence is still emerging, as the Document:Maggies's Guilty Secret‎ would seem to indicate. -- Robin (talk) 12:24, 8 March 2016 (GMT)

Internal/external linking

As a general rule, if a document already exists on the WS server then it is prefereable to link other pages to it rather than re-link to the external source. Less server load; less bandwidth and keeps things in-house so-to-speak. This probably needs putting somewhere in the help system too. (Prompted by Document:Maggies's Guilty Secret) --Peter P (talk) 07:49, 9 March 2016 (GMT)

Fully agree with that "general rule", Peter P. However, in the particular case of Document:Maggies's Guilty Secret, there are two problems that I pointed out to Robin, yesterday:

• The spelling in the document title is incorrect; and
• The document itself is not linked to its external source "Maggie’s guilty secret" by John Hughes-Wilson.

Until those deficiencies are corrected, I suggest we should directly reference to the external source by John Hughes-Wilson.--Patrick Haseldine (talk) 10:51, 9 March 2016 (GMT)