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I'm reverting back to include the link to the Sarpy County Museum. Bellevue may be a "host city" for the museum but it is a county museum, representing the county, its communities, and their people. The website contains historical information and photographs about Springfield and could be a good educational resource for those wishing to know more about the community of Springfield. I'm also including the link to the Sarpy County Chamber of Commerce. Both these organizations are not based in Springfield but they represent and serve Springfield and thus should be included in good faith as an external link source. Unless of course you think it detracts from the information about Lady Gaga and naturally we wouldn't want that. 98.175.55.145 (talk) 19:19, 13 April 2012 (UTC) 98.175.55.145Reply
By this logic, we should also have external links for the Nebraska State Historical Society, for Paul Lambert, for the National Register of Historic Places, for The Simpsons, and for several hundred other websites with some connection to Springfield. The Sarpy County Museum website has a "Springfield City History" subpage, and I considered an external link to that; but it's so poorly organized that it'd leave a reader with little useful information about the place. Rather than inserting it as an EL, I'd suggest extracting as much content as possible from it, integrating it with more local history (e.g. from the CASDE page, which I'll insert as an EL), and inserting it into the "History" section of the article. Properly footnoted, of course.
The Sarpy County Chamber site also contains too little about Springfield, diluted by an enormous mass of Bellevue and Papillion and the like. A link to a Springfield-specific business directory might be in order. (A listing of local businesses in the body of the article would not be, per WP:NOTDIRECTORY.)
Like it or not, Lady Gaga is WP:N. I wouldn't personally insert pop-culture trivia like that into an article, but neither could I justify its removal by Wikipedia policy. In any case, fatuity is no justification for irrelevancy... Ammodramus (talk) 20:53, 13 April 2012 (UTC)Reply
