On 23/03/2008, bobolozo <bobolozo(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
An extreme example of this, but... suppose some
spammer goes through and adds references to 1000
articles in random unsourced paragraphs, with the
source given being
mortgage-refinance-online-low-prices.biz, totally off
topic from any of the articles. We're now not allowed
to remove this spam without gutting all of these
articles or spending hundreds of hours digging up sources?
No, of course you're allowed to remove that. This is a strawman -
there is a very major distinction between maliciously-added spam links
and good-faith but-not-very-good actual sources.
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- Andrew Gray
andrew.gray(a)dunelm.org.uk