On 5/1/07, Anthony wikilegal@inbox.org wrote:
An interesting concept which was actually part of the original plans for Gnupedia. But we digress. Joe Szilagyi seems to be the only one going to such an extreme here.
I'm honestly surprised that more people don't see this. People keep saying things like, we'd inconvenience our readers. There's no COI. Etcetera, and so on. Stephen Bain provided a patch. Adding nofollow wouldn't affect the ability to template link--it would just make them nofollow if done right.
Template link all day, it's a good idea--but just make them as they're external links nofollow. For the current situation to be fair, any and every competing website to any of the ones currently *in* the Interwiki Map would need to be added if they asked for it.