Will Beback wrote:
David Gerard wrote:
This would still see michaelmoore.com removed from [[Michael Moore]], so fails the giggle test.
The purpose of Wikipedia is to create articles full of content, not full of external links. I'd argue that the article on Michael Moore does not require a link to his website, nor does any article require having any external link. External links are a convenience to readers, but aren't part of the goal of the encyclopedia.
Sure they are. The technical matter of a link is merely a convenience to our users, true, but the mention in the article body that Michael Moore runs a popular website is encyclopedic content. And furthermore posts on the website of a popular person are reliable sources for that person's view, and frequently used as such in academic writing (articles on michaelmoore.com are cited in hundreds of journal articles and academic-press books). Having a separate self-referential standard for sources is bizarre: we should generally not have policies about sources that special-case them based on what they say about Wikipedia.
-Mark