On Fri, 2004-08-27 at 23:32, Karsten Wade wrote: > Should we add that text to a References <section> in every document that > wants to refer to sources of information outside of the guide itself? > > That References <section> would include listing other Fedora docs, but > would not specify any non-Fedora URL or project name, instead suggesting > a Google search. > > IMO, this is also more useful to our readers -- our docs aren't > populated with links liable to get outdated or be difficult to > maintain, and readers get access to popular and useful sources of > information. > I think that this is a very good idea. I suspect that most documents/tutorials can potentially have links to third-party sites, but keeping the URLs up to date on a large set could be near impossible even with a checking script to flag broken links. A bibliography style References section would probably offer enough keywords for Google with no maintenance. And Google cache offers some insurance against referenced docs just disappearing...
