Links are imperative, not from any technical standpoint, but because they prevent readers from getting trapped on pages and subsequently dying of starvation. If left on the article, the dead readers will eventually start to smell...
Madness string 5130
Most of the kids who are going to cheat on their papers for me are so wildly obvious, I don't need the help. The ones that are clever enough to get past me have learned skills that will help them succeed in life, even if it's not what I want them to learn.