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External
Wikipedia articles can often be improved by providing links to web pages outside Wikipedia which contain information that can't be added, shouldn't be added, or hasn't yet been added to the article. These links belong in an External links section near the bottom of the article. more...
Home
Apple Components
Apple Desktops
Apple Drives, Media
Blank Media
CD-R, CD-RW, CD ROM
External
Internal
DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD ROM
Hard Drives
Other Drives, Media
Apple Input Devices
Apple Laptops, Notebooks
Apple Monitors/Displays
Apple Networking
Apple Parts & Accessories
Other Apple Products
Printers, Scanners & Ink
Vintage Apple/Macintosh
Wholesale Lots
Please use good judgment when adding external links, however, as Wikipedia is not a web directory; there are criteria a link should meet before it is added to an article's External links section.
Web pages that have been used as references in the creation of an article should be linked from an article's References section. See Wikipedia:Verifiability and Wikipedia:Citing sources.
What to link
Any page being considered as an external link should be useful, appropriately tasteful, and accessible to users with disabilities. It should also have a substantive longevity; that is, it isn't useful to provide a link to a page whose contents change often, where the relevant picture or article it features today may be gone tomorrow. (Similarly, such a page should usually not be cited as a source.)
An article about any organization, person, web site, or other entity should link to that entity's official site, if there is one. An article about a book, a musical score, or some other media should link to a site hosting a copy if none of the \"Links normally to be avoided\" criteria apply.
If an article presents multiple points of view, it is useful to provide a link to prominent sites dedicated to each point of view. The number of links dedicated to one point of view should not overwhelm the number dedicated to any other. Each link should be accompanied by a detailed explanation informing the reader which point of view it presents. If one particular point of view dominates informed opinion, that should be represented first. (For more information, see Wikipedia:Neutral point of view – in particular, Wikipedia's guidelines on undue weight.)
An article can link to pages that contain neutral and accurate material not already in the article. When possible, the information on the linked page should eventually be brought into the Wikipedia article, and the link should then be moved into article's References section. Sometimes this isn't possible and the external link should remain, such as when the linked page contains copyrighted material which can not be brought into Wikipedia, or has a level of detail which isn't appropriate for Wikipedia (such as professional athlete statistics, movie or television credits, interview transcripts, or online textbooks).
An article about an album, movie, book, or another creative work may have one or two links to professional reviews of the work.
If there are many fansites for the topic covered by the article, then providing a link to one major fansite (and marking the link as such) may be appropriate.
A link to a web directory category may be deemed appropriate by those contributing to an article. Preference should be given to open directories.
Read more at Wikipedia.org
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