<p>I think Open Data SE should be linked to from the “On topic” help center page for the following three reasons:</p>

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<li>Public betas are very unlikely to close. <a href="https://health.meta.stackexchange.com/a/493/43">Quote</a> from a moderator: " it's been a long time since Stack Exchange shut down a site that made it to public beta (private betas are different; several of those have failed.".</li>
<li>Even if Open Data SE closed, we could move the content on some other sites, and in the meantime the user would have gotten their answer anyway.</li>
<li>It's best to redirect the user to some place rather than nothing.</li>
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