Will Beback wrote:
Ray Saintonge wrote:
Will Beback wrote:
There are many ways that we could help readers get more information on a BLP subject. We could post the subject's phone number or address so that readers could contact the subjects directly. We could provide links to their publisher's website. We could add external link to sites that charge money, or that are published in a foreign language. Yet we don't normally do those things for good reasons.
Why do you want to create a rule about sites published in a foreign language? Sometimes they are the best source of information on a given subject, especially a person. Some readers interested in the broader subject do read that language, and should not have their sources limited by some form of anglo-chauvinism.
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I was using that as an example of a type of external link that is currently prohibited or discouraged. See [[Wikipedia:External links#Non-English language content]]. My overall point is that we don't simply allow or encourage all links that could in some way aid the reader to learn more about the subject. We have a number of restrictions on both external links and on sources. Those restrictions are not censorship, they don't disfigure the encyclopedia, and in fact they make it a better reference work.
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