Talk:Links

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Revision as of 19:55, 16 November 2005

Linking Rules

This section sholud stay at the top of this talk page.

• Active sites only - If a site is down indefinitely, on indefinite hiatus, inactive for several months, or "Coming Soon", it will be removed.
• No editorializing - List only the name of the site and a very brief description of its content. Comments like "The best fansite!!" will be removed.
• No duplicates - If a site is both a fan site and a forum, it should not be listed in both places. Pick the most appropriate category.

In addition, articles and interviews should be listed in reverse-chronological order (newest ones first) and other links should be listed in alphabetical order by title. Official sites are listed in order of their relevance to Homestar Runner.

Links that are currently broken

These have been moved here in the hope they return someday. This section should stay at the top of this talk page just below the linking rules.

I'm not sure where to put this, so here:
The Strong Bad Numa Numa song can be found through a link on [www.garybrolsma.net]. It's on the sightings page.

Actually, that page links to the same place we link to, and it really is down. Thanks for the tip, though. — Joey (talk·edits) 22:18, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

And garybrolsma.net has since removed the link from their site as well. — Joey (talk·edits) 19:48, 5 November 2005 (UTC)

Don't add sites that are down

Listen people! the forums you are trolling to put them back in are DOWN! -No Loafing V2

I'm sorry, but I have no idea what you are talking about. Can you please elaborate? I haven't seen any trolling on this page. And maybe adding a section heading to the topic you started would help. -- Tom 14:18, 17 Sep 2004 (MST)

Personal websites

I have a Homestar Runner fansite, but it only has my stuff (fanfiction and fanart). Would it be okay for me to add to the list?--Hysterical Woman 11:39, 24 Oct 2004 (MST)

Fan site pages?

I noticed that we now have links to pages for every fan site. What are information are these pages going to contain? Will it be something that the one line description doesn't have? And will they be NPOV? -- Tom 14:23, 16 Dec 2004 (MST)

I noticed this too; I don't think we need articles on fan created sites. The link is sufficient to direct people to them. If they want to make articles on the Fanstuff Wiki, I say go nuts, but this Wiki should be as "cannon" as possible. - Dr Haggis - Talk 03:21, 17 Dec 2004 (MST)

Website Linking

I think the "Want to link this Wiki from your website?" section needs to be a seperate page, or at least seen better. It's hard to find it way down at the bottom of Links. →FireBird

Maybe something like Links/Link to the Wiki would be good.—StrongstarRunbad 20:36, 14 Jan 2005 (MST)

I think that should be the case only if there are many images that can be chosen from. Right now two are dead and I have had to delete them (if anyone has local copies of them please upload them to the wiki!). I also suggest that the remaining offsite linked images should be saved locally on the hrwiki's image directory. I, unfortunately don't really know how to do this at this time. If I learn how, I will do so. --Stux 18:49, 23 Sep 2005 (UTC)

Banners and buttons

Are we allowed to add our own banners and buttons to the "Link to HRWiki" section? Can we upload them here? →evin290 19:20, 19 Feb 2005 (MST)

As far as I know, yes. →[[User:FireBird|FireBird]]

E2TL.PLAYVECTREX.COM

Is something wrong with everybodytothelimit.com? It just goes to some page with main5.swf embedded in it with a picture of a poorly animated duck with a server clock. Is that supposed to happen when I go to any page on that site? →—↑_{Darklinkskywalker}|^{Talk_|i did this stuff_}↓ 03:55, 7 Aug 2005 (UTC)

I am experiencing the same thing, only now not even the duck appears. I beleive that this link should be considered dead and should be deleted. According to the description, it likely has a copy of the Oktam mirror. Also, the kitcorp mirror is more thorough than the Oktam mirror and should be moved to the top of the list. I will come back in a few days and do the aforementioned changes if there are no objections. --Stux 18:42, 23 Sep 2005 (UTC)

Broken links

Seems silly for this page to have broken links on it. Perhaps they can be moved to the top of the talk page with some kind of notice on the main page to the effect of: "If you don't see a known link here, it might be down. Please check the talk page." What do you think? I'll go ahead and do this if nobody objects. — Joey (talk·edits) 16:49, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

Seems ok. — Elcool ^(talk)_(contribs) 16:57, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

Homestarrunner.net

Do we really need to have homestarrunner.net linked on this page anymore? — DBK!

EverybodyToTheLimit?

What's up with EverybodyToTheLimit.com? It's not down, but it's not exactly up either. Should it be moved to the talk page or kept where it is on the main page? — Joey (talk·edits) 02:35, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

Probably leave it in links, with a note that it's currently 'in limbo' or something. The fact that there's still something there means somebody's still paying the net dues, and thus might start it up again, right? ⇔Thunderbird⇔ 03:12, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

I realized right after I posted this that it's already posted about above. I guess leaving it on the Links page won't hurt. — Joey (talk·edits) 16:33, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

Am I blind or something?

Do we link to these sites/articles anywhere? I'm not seeing them on this page or the Interviews and Public Appearances page. Am I just blind and I'm not seeing them, or do they need to be added somewhere?

• Wired News: HomestarRunner Hits a Homer - A great interview.
• Flak Magazine: Homestar Runner Breaks from the Pack - Another great interview.
• Kevin Scott Interview - Yet another interview.
• ResExcellence: The Creators of Homestar Runner, The Brothers Chapman - A good summary article.
• NPR: Strong Bad Walks in Footsteps of Darth, Lex, J.R. - This article's pretty good. I mean, I read it.
• About.com: Homestar Runner is a Big Hit - Another article.
• MIT Web Site Review: HomestarRunner.Com: Come on Fhqwhgads
• BYU NewsNet: Homestar Runner provides good clean fun - Yet another article.
• Homestar RPG - I realize that project has come to a standstill, but is there any good reason why we can't link to it?
• FunTrivia.com Homestar Runner Quizes - More quizzes than you can shake a stick at.
• OKCupid! The Awexome Homestar Runner Test - Yet another quiz.
• Basic Homestar Runner Quiz - A YouThink.com quiz.

There's also a bunch of listings for Homestar Runner at thefanlistings.org > Animation > Digital Animation. Perhaps we should create a new subsection for fan listings and list them in order of membership?

What do you think? — Joey (talk·edits) 16:50, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

I think those two interviews should be linked to in the Interview section, and transcribed if copyrights permit. - Joshua 17:01, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

The two interviews are already text. They aren't videos. They should be linked to, but there's no need to transcribe them. — Joey (talk·edits) 17:08, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

We've transcribed other interviews that were already text... - Joshua 17:51, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

Other sites...

Some of the links in the other sites section (such as jorbs a plenty (and the jibblies??)) seem to belong more in the Sightings section rather than here... any thoughts? Ideas? Discussions... ponderings? Simulations (model checking)? Words...? --Stux 19:55, 16 November 2005 (UTC)