2006/5/2, Phil Boswell phil.boswell@gmail.com:
Maybe not, but one of our Prime Directives is "cite your source". This often requires multiple external links because there are multiple sources.
One hopes that you would class this type of link as "necessary" but there seem to be people to whom this kind of thing is like a red rag to a bull and would set upon a radical link-ectomy without bothering to consider whether there is any conflicting policy.
Sure, if you cite your source, and this source is an internet page, it should be linked. That seems clear to me. However, such a link I would then expect to be recognizable as such - at least specifying that it is a source rather than just a link, but preferably also which part of the page it is a source for. I would not expect them to be between the other external links; they also go with different rules (for example, if a site with letters to and from presidents were linked on [[Harry S. Truman]] as an external link, I would expect the link to go to an overview of the available material from Truman, whereas if it were linked as a source, I would expect to be taken to the specific letter that was used as a source).
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