Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Technical/@comment-452-20140828002814/@comment-25263848-20140913004326

Not all External links go to trusterd sites and SEO isn't the only reason mentioned. Also many experienced editors who come to edit her are from wikipedia or various mediawiki projects. So for example even though there is no reason why you can't name some of your common templates or categories differently, it will confuse many editors who are accustomed to a certain standard.

452 wrote: edit: regarding "standards": Standards for the sake of standards without an actual reason for them is exactly what the monkey story is about. You might frown upon that, but in many cases its business 101, which many fools fail to learn. So unless you have an actual benefit of using external-link over interwikis, before you revolt against conventions to comfort with your personal preferences, i'd I suggest that you consider that old saying that "if its ain't broke don't 'fix' it".