On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 10:58 AM, Gregory Maxwell gmaxwell@gmail.com wrote:
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But I do believe that a list of, say, 50 links tagged onto the end of an article typically has negative value for the following reasons:
Sometimes, if you prepare a proper bibliography for an article (those notes people should write before they write an article, so they know the sources they are working with) you can end up dumping 50 or more links onto the talk page of an article for more thorough discussion and sorting through stuff before adding it to the article. It is that sort of helpful dumping that I think people don't want to see removed from articles. Or at least it should be removed to the talk page. I think what happens is that some people (those who get too involved with sweeping through many articles looking for external link farms) lose perspective and instead of moving the links to the talk page for better integration to the article, they just remove them completely.
Carcharoth