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Please read WP:ELNO Thanks Doc James (talk · contribs · email) (if I write on your page reply on mine) 02:02, 18 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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What consensus is required?

Hi Doc James, You have deleted my link to a Bell's Palsy help website - leaving the comment "No consensus to add" - Thank you for your links to the guidelines which is appreciated, but I fail to see what consensus is required for the link to remain. The preceding comments on "Talk" stated that the link could remain (but as an external commercial link) (it was originally in the actual references for a point about Bilateral Bell's Palsy) if the book was "good". I have explained that it is; what it contains, the fact that most are given away free and that the site and the contact available through the site (and resulting help and advice received - again free) makes the link surely of help to sufferers and thus a valid one. For instance do I need 2 people to agree vs your single disagreement, or 10 people or more? The article (along with many others for medical complaints) is becoming so scientifically high brow as to make it more and more useless for the layperson suffering from the illness to gain any benefit from the information. A link such as the one I placed, which offers FAQ's, help and a contact for advice, along with a guide to help them through the illness, seems far more useful to an actual sufferer of Bell's Palsy. This winter I shall be doing a complete overhaul of the site to offer all of the information contained in the book and subsequent knowledge, feedback gained from the experiences of sufferers (I am a long term sufferer myself) - would this make a difference to your opinion of the link. I really would appreciate your help in this so that Wikipedia remains the superb resource that it is, but also (at least in this illness' case) has "real" and practical help for those actually suffering. Thanks for any input. Robert. Bobbytheberean (talk) 21:53, 28 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hey Robert. Wikipedia is not a collection of links to other sites. We are trying to build a high quality encyclopedia here. Our requirements for references is discussed at this link WP:MEDRS. Feel free to improve the article in question and welcome Doc James (talk · contribs · email) (if I write on your page reply on mine) 21:56, 28 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

By the way the Open Director Project specializes in external links. You could ask them about adding your page. We link to them generally. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) (if I write on your page reply on mine) 21:58, 28 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]