Forum:CT Archive/Links to other wikis

This Consensus Track was inspired by this Senate Hall thread. What it boils down to is this question: If a wiki exists for a specific fictional universe, should we create links to articles on that specific wiki if a link is warranted, or should we link to articles on Wikipedia only?

Now, I see a couple of potential issues with links to specific wikis.

First, what would we do in cases where more than one wiki exists for the subject (I can't think of any examples of this right now, but I'm sure I've seen them in the past)? How would we decide which of those wikis gets our 'endorsement' as being the correct wiki?

Second, what if the wiki in question has few contributors, thus making it potentially less reliable, and possibly less informative?

Third, I think it would probably be a major pain to go through and change Wikipedia links to specific wiki links. I guess some clever bot programming may be able to take care of that, though. DolukTalk 01:54, 2 January 2009 (UTC)

Create a list of 'approved' specific wikis to be linked to

 * 1) This is the option that requires the most work, and will be most likely to lead to continuing debate, but I think it's the best one. I don't feel that strongly about it, though, and I could be convinced otherwise. DolukTalk 01:54, 2 January 2009 (UTC)