Gregory Maxwell wrote:
On 10/18/05, Phil Boswell phil.boswell@gmail.com wrote: [snip]
I would hate for an opportunity like this, of getting something really useful up and running really quickly, to be lost while we dither.
I don't see how it's going to be lost, is there another free encyclopedia that they'll partner with if we don't slather wikipedia with externals to them?
I suspect that, like myself, many people have a hard time getting excited about filling up wikipedia with more externals rather than enhancing the value of Wikipedia directly.
I agree with Gregory. I am not thrilled with extra externallink possibilities for articles. Certainly not if the data belongs in wikipedia anyway.
We are not google, yet some articles on the English wikipedia contain over 150 external links. The excuse given is cite your sources. I feel this is going to far slowly but surely and growing out of hand.
An external link is a way of saying ''we are lazy'' go to another site.
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