[WikiEN-l] External links in articles, and a citations feature?

[Jimmy Wales]

Graham Burnett wrote:
> "External links within the article are against wiki policy."

Earlier today I used external links in an article, but I didn't
really like it.  And I found myself doing something really bad --
but I caught myself. 

I wrote something like...

In [http://www.whatever.com/ this article], so-and-so says such-and-such.

that's really bad because when the content is repurposed, that sentence
will make no sense at all.



--Jimbo