On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 10:02 AM, Matthew Brown morven@gmail.com wrote:
I think that Wikipedia being constantly bombarded by genuine spam has put us in an overly defensive mindset, which is also fed by the free-software anti-commercial attitude of some contributors. Spam is when an article is created to garner publicity or hits. It's not documenting anything anyone cares about, it's instead trying to give false respectability to something our readers don't want to see.
Yes, in the same way that "vandal fighters" start to see vandalism everywhere, especially in well-meaning but in some way malformed contributions.
It's also the work of the false presumption that NPOV means we must have *something* negative to say about every subject, or else the article is unbalanced.