----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tim Starling" <[email protected]>

> > *contradicting the "serious" tone
> > In my experiance, some wikipedians (esp. On enwiki) feel the wiki
> > should
> > have a very formal tone, and that share this links are out of place.
> > Ive
> > always wondered if thats partially in response to all the "wikipedia
> > is
> > unreliable" talk from academics when 'pedia first became popular
> > causing
> > people to want wikipedia to have a dry academic feel associated with
> > reliability.
> 
> Surely this is an untenable argument now that the websites of so many
> scientific journals have share links? e.g.
> 
> http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/65/6/1721.abstract

I personally attribute that to "we're so small, we have to cave on this point
or no one will know we're here", a problem a small journal might have, but
which Wikipedia certainly does not.

I'm on the "don't bother" side, for nearly all the reasons previously
enumerated.

Cheers,
-- jra
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