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The result of the debate was not to legislate how Wikipedia and Wikia links are to be used on this wiki. Graestan(Talk) 01:58, 18 January 2009 (UTC)

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)

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Always link to specific wikis

Never link to specific wikis - use Wikipedia instead

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)
  2. IFYLOFD (Come with me if you want to live.) 03:38, 2 January 2009 (UTC)
  3. We wouldn't want to be linking to the mando wiki, would we? SoresuMakashi(Everything I tell you is a lie) 06:32, 2 January 2009 (UTC)
  4. Sometimes the individual wikis are better, sometimes not. Mauser 11:50, 2 January 2009 (UTC)
  5. As per Mauser. Odysseas-Spartan53 16:13, 10 January 2009 (UTC)

Don't legislate this sort of thing

  1. It's really up to the editor, and anyone else can end up going in there and changing it. This would be nearly impossible to implement and regulate. I also strongly oppose "approving" any other wikis, Wikia or otherwise. Graestan(Talk) 04:36, 2 January 2009 (UTC)
  2. Gray Jedi 05:25, 2 January 2009 (UTC)
  3. Don't say the "IC" word, please. Chack Jadson (Talk) 13:41, 2 January 2009 (UTC)
  4. As much as I love having rules for everything, I think this is better. I wouldn't be averse to adding new interwiki link prefixes, but I don't think anyone should be forced to use them. -- Darth Culator (Talk) 13:52, 2 January 2009 (UTC)
  5. Rather than have to "approve" each wiki for maybe even just one link on some random page, let editors decide on individual pages what's best. Which is actually what we'd be doing with the "approve" option, except this way we wouldn't have a Wookieepedia-wide vote every time some new user wrote a link, which would seem like overkill to me. Wildyoda 17:08, 5 January 2009 (UTC)
  6. -- AdmirableAckbar (Talk) 17:40, 5 January 2009 (UTC)
  7. Link to the most informative article on the most informative wiki, and try not to edit war over it. —Silly Dan (talk) 22:00, 5 January 2009 (UTC)
  8. Per many above comments. —Xwing328(Talk) 02:31, 6 January 2009 (UTC)
  9. Sounds too instruction creepy to me. -- Riffsyphon1024 00:32, 7 January 2009 (UTC)
  10. In wikidom as in all else, there is no constant but change. We'll adapt more readily if our hands are not tied with unnecessary rules. Gonk (Gonk!) 22:02, 7 January 2009 (UTC)
  11. DC 02:05, 8 January 2009 (UTC)
  12. NaruHina Talk Anakinsolo 04:20, 13 January 2009 (UTC)
  13. I'd hoped to not have to dignify this one with a vote, but for security measures. Toprawa and Ralltiir 04:22, 13 January 2009 (UTC)
  14. Per Silly Dan. -- Ozzel 04:29, 13 January 2009 (UTC)
  15. Don't really care about this too much. Atarumaster88 Jedi Order (Talk page) 16:35, 13 January 2009 (UTC)
  16. Per all the above. — Fiolli {Alpheridies University ComNet} 23:00, 13 January 2009 (UTC)
  17. Cavalier OneFarStar(Squadron channel) 09:22, 15 January 2009 (UTC)

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