References I noticed that most of the External Links were really References Each reference was a link rather than a full reference The problem is that many newspapers and online news sources put articles behind pay to view firewalls and archive them after just a few weeks Readers who access this Wikipedia article months or years in the future won t be able to view these articles So it s more appropriate to put the entire citation including author title publication and date than a link That way when good links go bad couldn t help the pun sorry readers still can access the source