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

[David Gerard]

On 30 March 2010 12:49, Charles Matthews
<charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.com> wrote:
> Carcharoth wrote:

>> That probably misses the flux. How many links are added and then
>> almost immediately removed? That won't be picked up in something like
>> that, I don't think.

> Anyway, the point is not that external links are systematically
> persecuted (they may be patchily persecuted); but that they now have few
> actual rights.


I'm not at all convinced there's an actual problem here.

Prospective useful links and references can (and should) go on the talk page.


- d.