On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 6:11 PM, Ian Woollard <[email protected]> wrote:

> That's the way it's supposed to work, but I've never seen an external links
> section that big, because if it got a tenth that size it would be put up on
> the noticeboard and then get gratuitously chopped. And I'm not talking about
> spam links here.

The trick is to trim and not let it get too large, but to keep it organised.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Cook
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Holden

The former is still a work in progress, but the EL section
sub-sectioning was prompted by advice I gave to the editor there.

One of the problems is that ELs that can be used as sources are
rightly folded into the article, just as most see also links are
folded into the article, but the difference is that ELs that are
pointing to different media are fine to remain, as are ELs that are
serving as further reading. The issue of whether sources can also be
further reading is more contentious, but I maintain that this is
possible, as readers should be guided as to which of the sources in
use are useful as further reading, and shouldn't have to sort through
the sources themselves to identify those useful for further reading.

Carcharoth

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