Benjamin Webb wrote:
The one real issue is the matter of linking from Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects to Rodovid. If it did become a Wikimedia project, then nobody would object to this: we could use link boxes like we currently have for commons etc.
But what if the project is run independently, could any linking be done then. Personally as a Wikipedia contributor myself, I feel having such links would add to the quality of an article. However, I am sure others would disagree with this and delete it as spam linking.
I have no more objection to this than to any other external link. If an individual has an article about him in Wikipedia, and a genealogical entry in Rodovid that's not spam. I would frown on a lot of speculative links based only on the hope that Rodovid will someday include their family histories.
Whether these links are in some kind of link box is a formatting issue rather than a substantive one.
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