On 11/13/06, Phil Sandifer Snowspinner@gmail.com wrote:
On Nov 13, 2006, at 3:03 AM, Bryan Derksen wrote:
A set of templates with a different look-and-feel and perhaps an appropriate disclaimer, on the other hand, might be better. We often already have plain old external links anyway, though, so I'm not sure it's needed.
I think there's an important line to be drawn between an external link and those boxes, though. The external link clearly demarcates its contents as something that isn't in Wikipedia. Something like a Wikiquote link, on the other hand, serves as a sort of extension of the article.
I want to treat the fan-centric links as extensions, because it's clear that many editors and many readers expect that material to be in Wikipedia. And so we shouldn't just say "Go away." Or even "Go somewhere else." We should say "Look, here's where we've found that gives you this sort of information." And we should make that easy and well-integrated into our overall organization and navigation, because there's clearly demand for it.
Seems to me the natural solution is to start up a Wikimedia project for free information on fictional universes.
Anthony