Hi all- on the Anarchism talk page jack lynch has stated;
"External links within the article are against wiki policy."
To which I replied;
"PS. Where is it wiki policy not to use external links in articles? I always thought citations were a standard way of referencing, if it is policy it should be changed forthwith."
Which admit I wrote whilst feeling a bit snotty towards this individual, however, I've never seen anything which says external links are against 'policy', I use them all the time in much the same way i'd use citations, and can't see what's wrong here, please can i have some clarification from the rest of the community.
Personally i'd like to see MORE external links/citations, and was even thinking of proposing a feature for including citations or attributiuons within articles (for example, I've used some stuff that has been told go me personally by people (ie, by ex-members of Crass for the Crass article, which can't be verified by Google, but is none the less useful and encylopedic (or even vice versa- Micheal claimed someone from Crass was in a band called Trapeze- google verified this because someone else had written it on a dodgy unresearched website, but my primary source (ie, the people themselves) confirmed it was bollocks. Iyt would be nice to have a 'citation' feature that linked to quoted sources, much as the end of a chapter in an academic book has a 'notes' section at the end...
Cheers Graham burnett (quercus robur)
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