The following has been copied from the Editors Wiki (with minor modifications) at tye's request, as its intent is to prompt discussion, and that sort of intent is better suited to the Inner Scriptorium.

Happy New Year folks...
Put yourself on the Map -- correction has been considered for editing to linkify some of its text. I oppose doing this for the following reasons: (1) The node is 2.5 years old; if it hasn't been considered for this before, why now? (2) I don't think we should be getting in the habit of linkifying existing posts for people; once started down that road where do we stop? Plus, if the original author wanted links, he would (or should) have put them there him/herself. The node isn't harmed by not having them, it's just not as effective as it could be. But there are a lot of nodes that are less effective than they could be... we don't upgrade the quality of the content of peoples' posted nodes. If there is no significant argument to the contrary, I favor unconsidering this node and opting for inaction in this case. But based on the current consideration vote, I don't feel comfortable acting on my own without conferring with the rest of this clan.


Dave

In reply to Should janitors add links to posts? by davido

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