Timeline for What to do when being responsible for data protection in your lab, yet advice is ignored?
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| Mar 4, 2019 at 19:46 | comment | added | Kevin | @mascoj no, link-only answers are discouraged. Links to further reading or supporting material are encouraged, but the answer should stand on its own without them. | |
| Mar 3, 2019 at 21:30 | history | edited | Wrzlprmft♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Mar 2, 2019 at 15:07 | comment | added | VoodooCode | @BobBrown Thanks a lot for the link, I will definitely read through it! | |
| S Mar 1, 2019 at 22:55 | history | suggested | Viktor Vaughn | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Mar 1, 2019 at 21:30 | comment | added | David Richerby | No, links are fine; the problem is when the link is essentially the whole answer. You've mentioned specific document, so you should link to it. That link will eventually break, but you've given the full title, which should make it easy for somebody to find the new link. Your answer includes plenty enough information that its not a link-only answer. (And, if it didn't, just saying that links are discouraged wouldn't have made the answer better.) | |
| Mar 1, 2019 at 21:28 | history | edited | David Richerby | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Linked the document properly and removed incorrect statements about links being inappropriate.
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| Mar 1, 2019 at 18:29 | comment | added | mascoj | @BrianZ Links are generally discouraged since links can be relocated and thus broken on older answers. Saying "this site provides good information on such and such topic" is not helpful if the link is broken in the future (e.g. Microsoft moves the webpage to "private/gdpr-guidance"). It is always preferably to include a summary of what the link contains using a link as a reference to the information source. | |
| Mar 1, 2019 at 17:31 | comment | added | Bob Brown | @BrianZ Well, my answer was pretty close to just a link. My belief is that the culture of all of Stack Exchange is, "Answers, not links to answers." Perhaps I am wrong | |
| Mar 1, 2019 at 15:20 | comment | added | Brian Z | @BobBrown I'm curious where you are getting this "SE discourages the posting of links" idea from? I've only seen that in cases where an answer is just a link or list with little explanation. | |
| Mar 1, 2019 at 15:16 | comment | added | Bob Brown | @fqq Well, sure. That's why I included the link, even though we are asked not to. In case of link rot, the actual title should find the document if it's available at all. | |
| Mar 1, 2019 at 11:57 | history | answered | Bob Brown | CC BY-SA 4.0 |