on 1/24/07 8:50 PM, Geoffrey Burling at llywrch(a)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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To fly - you must first suspend your belief in gravity.