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

[Ray Saintonge]

Charles Matthews wrote:
> The point would be no different from (say) unreferenced content: there 
> the distinction between "may be removed" and "must be removed" is quite 
> important. And there is the "right", not of the link but the editor 
> adding it, to have "good faith assumed": other things being equal, 
> assume that the link was added to help develop the encyclopedia.
The problem with a phrase like "may be removed" is its implicit 
ambiguity. Those of us who read "may" in a potential sense expressing a 
possibility are offset by others who read "may" in a permissive sense.

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