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

[Angela]

I made this page a few years ago:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Angela/Links_study

Updating it for 2010 doesn't provide any evidence that there was a war
on external links any time recently. Maybe there was one in 2006?

Total links in the external links section of 8 articles (Russia,
marketing, Star Wars, SEO, TVR, medicine, Jewellery, and Tamagotchi):

2010	= 48
2009	= 46
2008	= 40
2007	= 50
2006	= 81
2005	= 51
2004	= 50
2003	= 10
2002	= 2
2001	= 2

Angela