Not a TV show, David: a radio programme in which academic experts on the topic are interviewed and have to talk about their research for a lay audience. Usually much better than the typical WP EL and probably among the best links in the world for for further information on the topic: again, depending on the human judgement of article editors.
On Fri, 10 Sep 2010, David Gerard wrote: > On 10 September 2010 14:06, Steve Bowbrick <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Should we just allow entry editors to link to In Our Time episodes from >> citations? or is there a systematic way that this could be done? Could >> episodes be automatically added to entries where there is a direct >> metadata correspondence, for instance? > > > If you're talking about an external link tacked on the end of an > article, rather than a specific reference: an external link has to be > one of the best few web links *in all the world* on that given topic. > > I would guess off the top of my head that this is unlikely to be the > case for a TV show on an article that isn't specifically about that TV > show, though it conceivably could. It would have to be better than > almost every possible external link of any type in the world, though. -- Dr Martin L Poulter ICT Manager, The Economics Network Based at the ILRT, University of Bristol: http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ The full experience: http://infobomb.org/ Wikipedia contributor: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:MartinPoulter Bias research: http://biasandbelief.wordpress.com/ Serious music: http://virb.com/comapilot Comedy music: http://www.myspace.com/glandscape Community blog: http://doodznchyx.wordpress.com/ _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list [email protected] http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
