On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 8:32 AM, Carcharoth <[email protected]>wrote:
> > About six months ago now, I stumbled on an article that wasn't in > great shape, added some text over a series of edits, and increased the > number of links in the 'external links' section from 5 to 22. Now, > admittedly I wasn't editing as an IP (I always edit logged in) and I > added the external links in such a way as to make clear why they were > useful, but still, I didn't arouse some huge storm of editors > demanding that I reduce the number of external links (they are all > still there). The number of external links will reduce as the article > is expanded, but if you format external links and arrange them > logically, they can function as a holding place for sources to be used > later to write/expand the article. > > Maybe that means that the question of external links is more one of > quality, and your analysis is oversimplistic? I submit that > well-formatted and well-chosen external links tend to stick, while > drive-by additions (or removals) don't. Which is not entirely > surprising. > > Carcharoth > > That conclusion would be far more convincing if you weren't who you are. _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
