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Oh, come on...

Does anyone really think that this is better than this? I don't think that the guideline WP:EL about external links is really meant to tell people to take out all the links to the relevant company pages on which the table is based, then replace them with a note about "unverifiable" information, simply because they appear in a table as external links rather than as numbered references. That's a minor format issue. We have policies like WP:POINT and WP:IAR for a reason - because a guideline is supposed to be an aid, not a straitjacket. Wnt (talk) 17:44, 17 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

This article needs to be tidied up to remove any additions without references or articles and change the External links in the body of the table to references. I did most of this with Comparison of database tools which I believe now looks a lot better and better complies with WP:EL. If anyone has good reasons why this should not be done speak now... otherwise I will start working on it. Vrenator talk 10:00, 30 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hello. I don't think you should edit out links. I think you should add more. People will click on the links because that is where they want to go. They don't want to go to a 'that page doesn't exist on wikipedia page', and they probably don't want to have to go down to 'references' to click the link either. Probably worth remembering what the HT in HTML stands for. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.21.227.234 (talk) 16:00, 2 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Trouble is that is against WP:EL - Wikipedia is not a collection of links which this page has become. Of course there should be additional references for those without links already but as it is this article is just wholesale SPAM. Vrenator talk 16:11, 2 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

How is something that lists SQL Server Compare tools and gives a reasonably detailed account of their functionality 'SPAM'? When people search Google for something like 'SQL Server Compare Tools' I think this article comes up first. What would you rather that they saw? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.21.227.234 (talk) 16:13, 2 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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