[Foundation-l] Rodovid.org, family tree wiki, wishes to become a wiki project

[Ray Saintonge]

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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