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From: "Tim Starling" tstarling@wikimedia.org
*contradicting the "serious" tone In my experiance, some wikipedians (esp. On enwiki) feel the wiki should have a very formal tone, and that share this links are out of place. Ive always wondered if thats partially in response to all the "wikipedia is unreliable" talk from academics when 'pedia first became popular causing people to want wikipedia to have a dry academic feel associated with reliability.
Surely this is an untenable argument now that the websites of so many scientific journals have share links? e.g.
I personally attribute that to "we're so small, we have to cave on this point or no one will know we're here", a problem a small journal might have, but which Wikipedia certainly does not.
I'm on the "don't bother" side, for nearly all the reasons previously enumerated.
Cheers, -- jra