On Nov 6, 2007 6:51 PM, Gregory Maxwell gmaxwell@gmail.com wrote:
On 11/6/07, Mark Wagner carnildo@gmail.com wrote:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Stevelihn&curid=1313...
- A user given a spam1 template for inserting reasonably relevant
external links into three articles.
I wouldn't suggest opening the links this user was adding. They crashed my browser with popups. There are far better places to link for exchange information. For example, the official sites for the exchanges, ... which also are not just advert laden mirrors of public data.
They looked fine to me, but I've been using the Proxomitron web filter for so long that I often don't realize that other people aren't seeing the same Internet I am. For what I saw (good-faith addition of links that contain the content they say they do), the correct response would be to remove the links and drop a note on the user's page to the effect that Wikipedia is not a web directory. No vague wording, no accusations of spamming, and no floods of template markup in the edit dialog of the user's talk page.