[WikiEN-l] Gosh darn it, those spammers^Wmarketers will show us what for

[Marc Riddell]

on 1/24/07 8:50 PM, Geoffrey Burling at llywrch at agora.rdrop.com wrote:

> Three or four years ago, Jimbo ranted about all of the external links he
> was finding in articles. IIRC, his point was that we didn't need any external
> links, that a Wikipedia article ought to stand on its own, and be better
> than any other website on the subject.
> 
> Maybe we should have listened to him.

At least one value of external links that I can think of is that they
provide access to additional information which, for a variety of reasons,
cannot be included in the Article's text.

Marc Riddell


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