Timeline for Is it preferable to give links to external resources in questions or to give the context yourself?
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| May 16, 2020 at 19:38 | history | edited | user9464 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 16, 2020 at 19:37 | comment | added | user9464 | @amW: That would be a fair point. Link-only answers are hard to be well-written. For questions that "depend heavily on the context of some specific book" I do consider providing a link is not sufficient. | |
| May 16, 2020 at 19:22 | comment | added | amWhy | I did not claim you said such a thing. But I wanted to help illustrate to the asker that not all questions with links are equivalent. They can enrich a post, but never substitute for a well written question. | |
| May 16, 2020 at 19:12 | comment | added | user9464 | @amW: "Links ... substitute for a good question. " I did not, do not, say such a thing at all. I'm afraid you are talking about something else. | |
| May 16, 2020 at 19:04 | comment | added | amWhy | But you fail to distinguish between the linked post you approve of (selected very carefully to prove your point in your post), and the countless questions of the sort: "Please solve this for me: [link to an external source]." Links can enrich a post, but should never substitute for a good question. | |
| May 16, 2020 at 14:55 | history | answered | user9464 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |