"Steve Bennett" wrote
To play devil's advocate, aren't we trying
to be informative? Should
we be keeping genuine sources of information away from our readers? If
the topic is "Juggling in Copenhagen", then wouldn't a forum for
jugglers in Copenhagen be a really appropriate link?
The mission is not the plain vanilla 'be informative'.
Interesting comment from one of my non-Wikipedian friends. His colleagues at work tend to
access official health statistics through WP external links; because it's quicker
generally to do that, than to access the official site, in terms of getting to the
relevant page out of many. That's quite a plaudit.
I've encountered the cryptic structure of that kind of site. It says
even more about them.
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