An anonymous user has inserted the following text into basically every article relating to gay film:
"[http://www.aboutgaymovies.info/ About Gay Movies] for information about gay themed movies and TV series."
Or, sometimes:
"[http://www.aboutgaymovies.info/ About Gay Movies]: Information about gay themed movies & tv-series. Also gay movie history, wallpapers, glbt filmfestivals, sweepstakes and more."
This is essentially an effort to advertise for a (mediocre) website. I think this is a bad idea, and we should discourage it, and maybe make some formal proviso against it.
The user has contributed what appears at first glance to be some good content ([[Chubby culture]]), but at second glance it's just the [[Bear community]] article s///d into an article on chubbies. Dunno what to think of that, but anyway..
Saurabh
http://www.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Special:Contributions&target...
------ The great lesson of history is that knowledge develops through the conflict of viewpoints... a consensus view... severely stultifies; it fails to see the problems of that consensus and it depends on the existence of critics to break up that iceberg and permit knowledge to develop. -- Walter Gilbert
Interesting image policy on this site:
http://www.aboutgaymovies.info/wallpapers.htm
Fred
From: rednblack@alum.mit.edu Reply-To: wikien-l@wikipedia.org Date: Thu, 29 May 2003 23:32:06 -0400 To: wikien-l@wikipedia.org Subject: [WikiEN-l] Advertising for website by anonymous user 24.132.158.131
An anonymous user has inserted the following text into basically every article relating to gay film:
"[http://www.aboutgaymovies.info/ About Gay Movies] for information about gay themed movies and TV series."
rednblack@alum.mit.edu wrote:
This is essentially an effort to advertise for a (mediocre) website. I think this is a bad idea, and we should discourage it, and maybe make some formal proviso against it.
I agree. I'm not sure we need a formal proviso, but yeah, advertising in a bunch of semi-relevant articles is bad form.
The user has contributed what appears at first glance to be some good content ([[Chubby culture]]), but at second glance it's just the [[Bear community]] article s///d into an article on chubbies. Dunno what to think of that, but anyway..
I have no strong opinion about this, knowing next to nothing about these subcultures. :-) If there is an entry on boring upper-middle-class dads, I'll be the go-to guy. :-)
--Jimbo