Quoting Will Beback will.beback.1@gmail.com:
[[WP:EL]] is not a policy, and no written policy that I'm aware of mandates the use of any links. I'f I'm wrong please show me where it says differently.
This appears to be part of a general problem that I've seen more and more frequently since I joined Wikipedia, an attitude of "if it isn't written down it doesn't exist". I invite you to look at any article about a corporation or living individual and see what fraction of those link to their websites. Moreoever, I would be surprised if many of the ones that didn't link did so for any reason other than the individuals not having websites. There's a clear consensus that these links should be there, simply based on what the community does. Moreover, a reasonable individual would see such links as part of what they would expect in an article about the person. Claiming that since it isn't written down we can ignore these basic facts comes across as wikilawyerish and unproductive.