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The way I see it at least a link to an article, paper or book isn't ideal, but must do for reasons of time and the reasons you suggest.
That said, regardless of how ideal those answers are or aren't, they are still substantive so long as the linked content is substantive. The same reasoning goes for something like linking to past answers: they're justified in virtue of the thing they're linking to.
There's nothing here!