On 10 September 2010 14:19, Martin Poulter <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
I think the level of usefulness will in large part depend on the subject. A programme on the Pharaoh Akhenaten is likely to be a good external link for that article: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00mwsly whilst a broad discussion on "Africa" would be much less directly useful on the article about the continent: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00545ld The best approach here might be to try the automatic topic-matching to Wikipedia articles, bur rather than dropping the links into the articles - which would probably lead to at least one person getting very upset and trying to remove them all again, and it'd be messy - link them on the talkpages with a note explaining what /In Our Time/ is, for those editors unfamiliar with it, and asking them to decide if it would be useful either as a "further reading" style external link, or if it could be used as a source for developing the article itself. -- - Andrew Gray [email protected] _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list [email protected] http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
