# Adding an external link to the Reason field (badge) fails silently

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/adding-an-external-link-to-the-reason-field-badge-fails-silently/95847
**Category:** Bug
**Created:** [August 28, 2018, 4:58pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/adding-an-external-link-to-the-reason-field-badge-fails-silently/95847 "2018-08-28T16:58:29Z")
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### Author: ![saurabhp](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/saurabhp/32/125182_2.png) [@saurabhp](https://meta.discourse.org/u/saurabhp)
#### Post date: [November 28, 2018, 8:25am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/adding-an-external-link-to-the-reason-field-badge-fails-silently/95847/4 "2018-11-28T08:25:16Z")

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Hi @dax ,  
I have created PR for the same. I just wanted to confirm only links have to be allowed in reason, right? Plain text is also not valid, right?

[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/6690](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/6690)

Thanks

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