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Community boards are appointed, not elected; do they qualify as representative government? Vectro (talk) 13:49, 23 May 2013 (UTC)
Hello friends, somebody with username Bronxcb8 was trying[1] to add this facebook link to the article.
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Bronx-Community-Board-No-8/142135602566655
Wikipedia generally tries to avoid linking to social media websites like facebook, because they tend not to be Reliable Sources except in rare cases when the author is a noted authority in some particular subject area, and the contents of many social media sites like facebook are not part of the permanent record of the internet.
That does not mean wikipedia should *never* link to facebook... it just means that we prefer to link to the 'official' website of an organization, which in this case is www.nyc.gov/bronxcb8 already being done. Can somebody with local knowledge of the situation on the ground please explain to us outside-of-NY folks what the deal is here?
Who modifies nyc.gov/bronxcb8 -- the city, the board-members, it never gets changed, what exactly?
Who modifies Bronx-Community-Board-No-8 over on facebook -- is it run by a current board-member, is it a semi-official page of the Bronx Borough President, is it run by a resident as an unofficial blog about the activities of Board #8, or what exactly? In particular, it is incredibly important for wikipedia to maintain a neutral point of view. If the facebook page is written from a partisan perspective, advocating for certain policies that one member (or a subset of members) of the overall Board are hoping to get enacted as policy, then linking to the facebook page would be a kind of advertising slash petition-site slash promotional. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, so it is not the place for such things.
Given these general sorts of concerns, one of the wikipedia sysadmins wrote a bot that reverts facebook links (plus a ton of other blog sites and so on) temporarily. That bot is still getting the kinks worked out; at the moment it is way too unfriendly! If the facebook link will improve wikipedia -- *as* an encyclopedia -- then it should be in the article. If the facebook link will improve one resident's ability to advertise their political message, that is *not* the same as improving wikipedia, of course... that would be degrading wikipedia, from a trusted neutral source, into a covert promotional platform.
So -- if anybody has some knowledge -- Bronxcb8 are you out there? -- about what the relationship of the facebook page is, to the 'official' page, and who is behind the curtain (has the ability to login and edit both the facebook and the official page), that would help decide whether adding the facebook link is a Good Thing, or best left out as temporary and/or unduly biased. Appreciate you helping to improve wikipedia. See you around. Leave a note on my talkpage, if you respond and I fail to notice your response promptly. Thanks. 74.192.84.101 (talk) 10:41, 13 October 2013 (UTC)
Does anybody know why wikipedia only generates the TOC when talkpages have at least three subsections? Help:Section#Table_of_contents_.28TOC.29
But maybe four is required? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.192.84.101 (talk) 11:03, 13 October 2013 (UTC)
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