On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 9:05 PM, Gwern Branwen <[email protected]> wrote:
> It would be a service to our readers to end this practice entirely: if > a link is good enough to be hidden on a talk page (supposedly in the > interests of incorporating it in the future*), then it is good enough > to put at the end of External Links or a Further Reading section, and > our countless thousands of readers will not be deprived of the chance > to make use of it. Not to either agree or disagree with this but I wrote a substantial amount about the artist [[Rachel Whiteread]] years ago and through my research found out about a ton of works she'd done that I didn't feel merited inclusion. So I documented them on the talk page and I drew the conclusion that although they would overwhelm the article some article readers would be interested in the list. So I placed a link to the talk page in the links section with a note explaining about the list that could be viewed there. Someone removed the link and the explanation saying that either the talk page information was good enough to be included in the article or it wasn't good enough to be noted in the article space. I didn't fight it, but thought it a poor decision. Bodnotbod _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
