[WikiEN-l] A war on external links? Was: Inside Higher Ed: Does Wikipedia Suck?

[David Gerard]

On 29 March 2010 10:58, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell at gmail.com> wrote:

> But I do believe that  a list of, say, 50 links tagged onto the end of
> an article typically has negative value for the following reasons:


Yeah. 7-10 is IMO the absolute limit for non-reference links, and I
can hardly think of an article that can reasonably justify more than
three or four. (I'm sure someone will weigh in with counterexamples,
I'm speaking in the general case.)


- d.