Talk:Robert Schlumberger von Goldeck

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I've absolutely had enough of that silly and soulless discussion about whether one isolated link should be referred to as link or links. I also have very strong doubts concerning people who unconditionally believe in authority rather than questioning the things they are asked to do first. (See User talk:Neilc/External links, where I referred to that weird phenomenon as willing executioner syndrome).

Re-reverting "external link" (where there is only one) to "external links" as User:Marknen did on the Robert Schlumberger page should be beneath anyone who has ever edited a Wikipedia article. It means (re-)introducing a mistake for the sake of uniformity or whatever it is I cannot even fathom. I have been told within a period of a few hours now that "Links" is "cannonical" [sic] (see Politics (novel)) and "the standard". It's certainly not my cannon or canon, and it's not my standard either.

I'm still waiting for someone to refer me to a page where this has been discussed (other than User:Neilc's user page, where he/she expresses his/her personal preference).

I've said so recently at Wikipedia talk:Missing Wikipedians#Where are all the old hands?: It has repeatedly happened that those introducing such changes very soon lose interest in Wikipedia and are never heard of again. It might actually be more interesting to use one's time writing an article. <KF> 14:47, Nov 23, 2004 (UTC)

External links

KF, on what basis is using the heading "External links" for one link a mistake? "External links" is a section and I believe using "External link" when there is one link would be just as senseless as using "Reference" on a paper that has one reference or "Footnote" on a page that has one footnote. While yes, technically one of anything should be refered to in the singular sense, when a convential heading name is used, plural is safer. Thats my take.

If you take a look at the guidelines, one of the examples they give shows the headline "External links" and it only has one item under it.

Marknen 15:51, 23 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Internal links

Currently, Schlumberger link refers to "the world's largest oilfield services corporation". Maybe that link should be just removed until someone makes up an article about the wine company, too. --Oop (talk) 10:55, 14 July 2008 (UTC)

Well, the oilfield company is the number one "Schlumberger" hit in Google and is listed on NYSE, while the wine companies from Alsace (Domaines Schlumberger) and Austria (Schlumberger Wein- und Sektkellerei) are number 6 and 7, respectively. As long as those companies have no articles I think the present state of play, with a Schlumberger (disambiguation) page as a hatnote to Schlumberger, is OK. Tomas e (talk) 15:30, 14 July 2008 (UTC)