On 1/17/07, Steve Bennett stevagewp@gmail.com wrote:
I feel like a baby for coming crying to the list, but so be it.
I created [[One deal a day]], a business model used by certain web-based retailers. I added a list of retailers that use this model.[1] I linked them to their websites. Another user deleted the whole list as spam, citing our "Wikipedia is not a repository of external links" guideline.
I contend that this alleged "list of links" is distinct from a normal list of advertising links as:
- the list is intended to be exhaustive
- the interest is in the retailer appearing in the list, not in
sending the user to the website for further information
DMOS is that way.
- there is genuine interest in the list for its own sake: you could
make a table and build further information about the entries, and you could easily conceive of someone doing research based on the list
Am I wrong? Is the list just a glorified form of advertising?
It doesn't really matter since I can porbably come up with quite an interesting set of policies that prevent it. no original research for example.