On Nov 6, 2007 6:51 PM, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 11/6/07, Mark Wagner <carnildo(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Stevelihn&curid=131…
- 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.
--
Mark
[[User:Carnildo]]