----- Original Message -----
From: "Tim Starling"
<tstarling(a)wikimedia.org>
*contradicting
the "serious" tone
In my experiance, some wikipedians (esp. On enwiki) feel the wiki
should
have a very formal tone, and that share this links are out of place.
Ive
always wondered if thats partially in response to all the "wikipedia
is
unreliable" talk from academics when 'pedia first became popular
causing
people to want wikipedia to have a dry academic feel associated with
reliability.
Surely this is an untenable argument now that the websites of so many
scientific journals have share links? e.g.
http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/65/6/1721.abstract
I personally attribute that to "we're so small, we have to cave on this point
or no one will know we're here", a problem a small journal might have, but
which Wikipedia certainly does not.
I'm on the "don't bother" side, for nearly all the reasons previously
enumerated.
Cheers,
-- jra
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