On 10/2/06, Angela <beesley(a)gmail.com> wrote:
For example, the PR around Citizendium has had various
Wikimedians
saying this is fine since Wikipedia can benefit from any improvements
to the content which that project makes, but that may involve linking
to it with these sorts of templates.
I think that would be fine if Citizendium gains critical mass. I have
more of a problem when the appearance is that it is used to _build_
critical mass.
Some way of adding attribution on the history page
(which isn't
indexed by Google and therefore useless to spammers) may be a better
solution than adding these to the article. It probably also makes more
sense in terms of the GFDL if the history is all on the history page
and not partly there, partly on the talk page, and partly on the
article itself.
Perhaps, if it is only and very specifically used for contributions
from external sources. A sort of "External History:" namespace whose
contents are shown and linked to on top of the history might be
workable. Right now I'm not sure the problem is prevalent enough to
justify prioritizing such a change.
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Peace & Love,
Erik
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