> Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 12:49:26 +0100 > From: Charles Matthews <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] A war on external links? Was: Inside Higher > Ed: Does Wikipedia Suck? > To: English Wikipedia <[email protected]> > > > Carcharoth wrote: > > That probably misses the flux. How many links are added and then > > almost immediately removed? That won't be picked up in something like > > that, I don't think. > > > Anyway, the point is not that external links are systematically > persecuted (they may be patchily persecuted); but that they now have few > actual rights. > > Charles >
And why should links have any particular "rights"? External links should be justified in the same way as any addition to the article. They may not require the same verifiability standards, but they should be judged to be a recommended place for further reading. In some way or another, they should add content the editors judge to be useful, and not simply be about the subject. Considering that for every good link I've seen inserted, I've also seen one that was useless or even misleading or libelous, why would they need any special protection? I see no reason why we need additional policy and bureaucracy specifically for links. Sxeptomaniac _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
