On 5/30/07, Blu Aardvark jeffrey.latham@gmail.com wrote:
jayjg wrote:
Actually, I can't think of any occasion where such a link would be beneficial to the project. What exactly did you have in mind?
Let's suppose there was an RFA candidate who had posted to one of the aforementioned sites some questionable material. Would it not be beneficial to the product to point this out, and would, in some such circumstances, a link be necessary?
O.K., so now we have a third case; in the event that someone has posted something horrible on WR (a highly likely possibility), and they are also running for something on Wikipedia (like adminship), you think it would be beneficial to link to that awful post.
There may be other occasions, not related to bad-faith or questionable actions on the part of people, where a link may be beneficial for the purpose of discussion. While I can't exactly think of an examples, such a situation certainly could appear.
"While I can't exactly think of an example" - aye, there's the rub. It seems to me that the times in which a link to WR would benefit Wikipedia are extremely few at best, and involve very specific circumstances - so specific, that they could, in fact, be enumerated in very short list.