People entering a topic are always going to have "meta" questions. One of their first efforts may be establishing a proper understanding of context. If you wa

People entering a topic are always going to have "meta" questions. One of their first efforts may be establishing a proper understanding of context. If you want to be a friendly and encouraging community, help them out. Don't chase them off; you've just lost a potential member. That said, better to have a very good, defining resource, rather than to be constantly re-answering (in full text, as opposed to citation) the same question. A few iterations of Q/A on the topic should produce a sufficient answer -- "organically", form someone with the time, knowledge, and communication skills -- to subsequently serve as such. No need necessarily to force an external context for such information/resources. Not when it's so easy to "deep link" to them in situ.