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It is, of course, up to you whether you include the link, although I don't know if I'd class the Brighton Pavilion simply as a 'commercial venue'. It is a 200-year old unique royal palace and art gallery, frequently used as a symbol of Brighton and one of Britain's most iconic buildings, designed by John Nash, one of Britain's greatest architects (and I'm not just saying that because he lived on the Isle of Wight .) I think you would be justified including a link to it. Adding a link to a culturally important national landmark is not quite the same as, say, a fairly mundane building without significance such as a restaurant or shop.

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I'm sure the link to the Royal Pavilion should be included. I wasn't sure about the link to the Palace Pier (though that does incude some history) and I wasn't going to include links to the Marina, or the Sea Life Centre, or the North Laines.

I agree it is a fine line between a site which is giving touristic or historical information and those which are purely for leisure and entertainment.

But we are a Guide, and as a site which disseminates information I think it is quite reasonable to have links to those places which should be considered part and parcel of the Entry.

I suppose what I am trying to say is that our readers may like the fact that we provide links to the most useful places connected with our Entries.

I'd also support the views of the author about which links they consider valid.

Nice article
I looked at the name Brightelmstone for an entry on the escape of Charles II, it is said to come from Beorhthelmes t&#363;n or in modern English Beorhthelm's farmstead. I thought to mention it in case of interest.
I enjoyed this entry good work

t&#363;n is meant to read tun I don't know what happened there

That's interesting, if a bit disappointing. I thought it referred to the brightnesss of the local chalk and the presence of elms!

sorry about that

My personal view (so feel free to disagree with and disregard) is that links to commercial locations can be considered if they are links to places of either national, historical, cultural, educational, conservational or scientific importance, this status ideally verified by an independent national organisation.

Palace Pier - a listed building, so independently proven to be historic. Brighton is a seaside resort, a focus of Britain's traditional bucket-and-spade holidays. Before railways, piers were the way that visitors travelled to seaside resorts, on ships landing at landing stages that evolved into today's pleasure piers. Piers have long been an integral part of British seaside holidays, and therefore the pier is also cultural.
Marina – From the little I know, this was built in the 1970s. Does it have national, historical, cultural, educational, conservational or scientific importance?
Sea Life Centre – The website does have a section for school parties, so provides educational value. I would include a link if I am satisfied it is involved in animal conservation. (Douglas Adams, the founder of h2g2, was passionately involved in animal conservation ('Last Chance to See' etc) so anything with a similar focus deserves to be included.) The website mentions campaigns against whaling, otter, seahorse and turtle conservation projects (although the Brighton Animal Action website seems to be campaigning against the Sea Life Centre, wishing it to release its turtles into the wild). I personally would include a link to a very small aquarium with conservational intentions, but not to a very large tropical fish shop that doesn't.
North Laines – Is this just a shopping area with theatres? Shops, even if wacky, I wouldn't include links to although the theatres themselves could be considered to be cultural.

Although I agree with KB that links should only be included when they naturally arise in the entry's context and should not be shoe-horned in for the sake of it.

Isn’t there an electric railway in Brighton that could perhaps be mentioned?

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BB,I've included a link to Magnus Volk's electric railway, which has a nice article on the Guide: A34644224.

My own feeling is that the Pavilion and the Palace Pier are historical, and the links to them are justified. I'm not sure about the others.

I hope I haven't opened a

I've expanded this article a bit, partly to accommodate readers' suggestions and partly because I wasn't sure I'd done Brighton justice.

Is this now sufficient?

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Looking forward to seeing this on the Front Page mvp - Well done!

Lanzababy

yay - Brighthelmstone is on the map!!

nice one mvp, many thanks

Thanks folks.