Talk:Gloucestershire Regiment

Latest comment: 4 years ago by Factotem in topic Duplicate links
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Please join our project to upgrade Gloucestershire-related articles to featured status.  Mike |talk 16:25, 30 November 2008 (UTC)Reply

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Ran out of time before coming even close to finishing this article. Intend to revisit it soon, but there is simply too much material to go into such detail in a single article. My plan is, therefore, to spin out the history of the regiment in WWI to a separate article, and summarise that period in this one. FactotEm (talk) 09:16, 1 October 2017 (UTC)Reply

See Gloucestershire Regiment in World War I
Update: content-wise I think this article is pretty much there now. FactotEm (talk) 19:07, 26 October 2017 (UTC)Reply
Looks good to me. Well done! Best wishes. Dormskirk (talk) 19:12, 26 October 2017 (UTC)Reply
Thx :) FactotEm (talk) 19:18, 26 October 2017 (UTC)Reply
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What's the consensus on duplicate linking of the Victoria Cross recipients in this article? They are first linked in the main narrative where their VC-winning actions are described. TenthEagle (talk · contribs) is now linking them for a second time in the list of recipients that appears at the end of the article. My take is that as a Featured Article this article should comply with MOS, and specifically MOS:DUPLINK, which says not to duplicate links in this way. Factotem (talk) 15:11, 9 April 2020 (UTC)Reply

We only need one link.Slatersteven (talk) 15:18, 9 April 2020 (UTC)Reply
One only. Keith-264 (talk) 17:25, 9 April 2020 (UTC)Reply
One only. Mztourist (talk) 07:20, 10 April 2020 (UTC)Reply
The MOS does say a link may be repeated in a table so I think it may be acceptable here given the list is a pseudo-table. The list is helpful for the reader since it centralises the VC recipients in one place and they don't have to review all the campaign history to find the soldiers. Zawed (talk) 23:39, 10 April 2020 (UTC)Reply

On a straight headcount the !vote is 4:2 against the duplicate links, a position further strengthened by the the MOS, which is also against them, so I'm removing them. Please do not add them back in without seeking consensus for it. Thanks all. Factotem (talk) 18:48, 14 April 2020 (UTC)Reply