On 17/10/2007, Steve Summit scs@eskimo.com wrote:
At the risk of invoking Godwin's Law, I have to wonder: if Adolph Hitler were alive today and had a website, would we link to it from [[Adolph Hitler]]?
It is pretty much inconceivable that we wouldn't, I have to say.
This "we don't really need links, no-one will notice if we dump them, they have no encyclopedic use" argument is silly. Policy is what happens; one of our most widely accepted editorial-content decisions is that if there is an "official site", we link to it. That's what happens, almost invariably; there is massive and wide-ranging consensus that This Is How We Do Things.
Usually, the only time I see this disputed is for practical reasons - two sites quarrelling over which one is the proper link - and not for editorial ones.