<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...
-SV
On 2/7/07, stvrtg stvrtg@gmail.com 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...
-SV
{{sofixit}}
Ohh, wait, I guess you have :P
On Wed, 7 Feb 2007 00:32:07 -0500, stvrtg stvrtg@gmail.com wrote:
I suggest the new term "bandspam" to refer to the promotional pushing of song links
What's wrong with the existing term, Vanispamcruftisement?
Guy (JzG)
On 07/02/07, Guy Chapman aka JzG guy.chapman@spamcop.net wrote:
On Wed, 7 Feb 2007 00:32:07 -0500, stvrtg stvrtg@gmail.com wrote:
I suggest the new term "bandspam" to refer to the promotional pushing of song links
What's wrong with the existing term, Vanispamcruftisement?
It assumes bad faith.
We've been through this particular one on the list before. A useful way of dealing with it is to put {{otheruses}} on the main article and make a disambiguation page with two entries. Everything is where it belongs and the song links at the top of generic articles don't make you go "wtf?"
- d.
On 2/7/07, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
We've been through this particular one on the list before. A useful way of dealing with it is to put {{otheruses}} on the main article and make a disambiguation page with two entries. Everything is where it belongs and the song links at the top of generic articles don't make you go "wtf?"
Exactly. Most of the time, there's no evil intent whatsoever - just the fact that rabid fans have different priorities and don't see that others might not care or might find those links annoying. A disambiguation page takes care of that problem and helps with the genuine cases of mis-linking.
-Matt
Guy Chapman aka JzG wrote:
On Wed, 7 Feb 2007 00:32:07 -0500, stvrtg stvrtg@gmail.com wrote:
I suggest the new term "bandspam" to refer to the promotional pushing of song links
What's wrong with the existing term, Vanispamcruftisement?
Remembering it.
Ec
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
On 2/7/07, stvrtg stvrtg@gmail.com wrote:
<gripe> I suggest the new term "bandspam" to refer to the promotional pushing of
Atleast it isnt a -cruft.