A contributor has added links to http://www.countryguide.com/ on many pages (see http://www.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Special:Contributions&target.... 41.45.22 ) I don't think the links are particularly useful, they just lead to more links and this just seems like advertising to me. I'm inclined to remove them all, but am not sure enough to do so without checking first. What is policy on links like these?
Regards,
sannse
On Mon, 14 Apr 2003, sannse wrote:
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2003 20:12:11 +0100 From: sannse sannse@delphiforums.com Subject: [WikiEN-l] http://www.countryguide.com
A contributor has added links to http://www.countryguide.com/ on many pages (see http://www.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Special:Contributions&target.... 41.45.22 ) I don't think the links are particularly useful, they just lead to more links and this just seems like advertising to me. I'm inclined to remove them all, but am not sure enough to do so without checking first. What is policy on links like these?
I agree, when this person first started adding them, it was even worse, but I (along with another user or two) worked out a reasonable compromise that let the links stay without being as POV as they were at first (I think it revolved around use of a word like "excellent" to describe it, and one other phrase). I'd really rather not see them at all, but I didn't want to be too heavy-handed in refusing "contributions" either (especially as I wasn't a sysop then). So I wouldn't be too saddened by their loss.
On Mon, Apr 14, 2003 at 02:59:52PM -0500, John R. Owens wrote:
On Mon, 14 Apr 2003, sannse wrote:
I agree, when this person first started adding them, it was even worse, but I (along with another user or two) worked out a reasonable compromise that let the links stay without being as POV as they were at first (I think it revolved around use of a word like "excellent" to describe it, and one other phrase). I'd really rather not see them at all, but I didn't want to be too heavy-handed in refusing "contributions" either (especially as I wasn't a sysop then). So I wouldn't be too saddened by their loss.
Sysop is no higher level in terms of policies. Sysop is only the right to use some advanced technical features in the wiki software that are considered as too dangerous to be given to any newbie or vandal.
A newbie has to ask for someone else doing these task, e.g. on Votes for deletion, Vandalism in progress, etc.
Best regards,
jens frank
But note that if you click on a country. The first link is right back to Wikipedia.
Fred
From: "sannse" sannse@delphiforums.com Reply-To: wikien-l@wikipedia.org Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2003 20:12:11 +0100 To: wikien-l@wikipedia.org Subject: [WikiEN-l] http://www.countryguide.com
A contributor has added links to http://www.countryguide.com/ on many pages (see http://www.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Special:Contributions&target.... 41.45.22 ) I don't think the links are particularly useful, they just lead to more links and this just seems like advertising to me. I'm inclined to remove them all, but am not sure enough to do so without checking first. What is policy on links like these?
Regards,
sannse
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