Blog - SEO Question

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A while back, I remember someone saying that you want your blog articles to resemble a Wikipedia article, i.e. numerous outgoing links to other websites. Presumably this would help your Google ranking. But I also thought that one of the key factors in Google's rankings is the ratio of incoming to outgoing links? Wouldn't adding more outbound links hurt this ratio, thereby hurting my ranking? Thanks in advance for any help...