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.
Ec