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

Anthere anthere8 at yahoo.com
Sat Jan 10 14:43:01 UTC 2004



Graham Burnett a écrit:
> Hi all- on the Anarchism talk page jack lynch has stated;
> 
> "External links within the article are against wiki policy."
> 
> To which I replied;
> 
> "PS. Where is it wiki policy not to use external links in articles? I always
> thought citations were a standard way of referencing, if it is policy it
> should be changed forthwith."

Most of the time, the links are at the bottom of the article. Sometimes, 
I think it is best that the links are within the text for clarity.

I do not think there is a policy for links inside the text. If there is 
one, let's change it Quercus ! (or decide not to follow it :-))





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