stvrtg wrote:
<gripe> I suggest the new term "bandspam" to refer to the promotional pushing of song links etc as a way to differentiate internal linkspam from the nominal external variety. Bands of course are the most typical form, but sometimes people Im of course talking about hatnotes - anything on disambig pages should be fair game.
Current example; some fan pushing this important note at the top of [[Space suit]]:
- "Space Suit" is also an instrumental track from They Might Be Giants' 1992 album* Apollo 18http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_18_%28album%29
*.* A *space suit* is a complex system of gaments, equipment and environmental
systems designed to keep a person alive...
Hmmm! FWIW, this is distinctly different from my first impression of the word. My inclination was not to see "band" in the sense of a musical group, but in the sense of a range of values as in "bandwidth" or "broad band". Thus "bandspam" gives me the impression of spam that is being sent to a wide band of IP addresses.
Ec