Forum:Interwiki linking

In this this discussion, Kevin, Mike and I have been discussing interwiki linking. I understand the policy of leaving redlinks for articles like "Photon torpedo" or "Uhura" rather than linking to Memory Alpha, because we should have those articles ourselves.

However, on the Christopher Pike page, I've linked several things to the Memory Beta articles. These are things that I doubt will ever need to be made into an article here, like the Charlie Pike character from the Burning Dreams novel. On the other hand, I didn't feel right leaving it as plain text, because if someone's looking for information on that character, they should be able to click on the link and go straight to the MBeta article, instead of just following the generic External Link to the main Chris Pike article and hunting for the link to Charlie.

Kevin thinks the External Link is enough, I do not. What does the rest of the community think? --TimPendragon 21:22, 1 January 2007 (UTC)