On 5/19/2012 8:00 AM, Andrew Grey wrote:
I just went
through 19 random pages (9 of them didn't have any ELs, so I
didn't count them, and I found three articles in which the last EL was not a
useful link. One of them was a spam link to a (non-WMF) wikiproject, one was
Did
you test first links, incidentally? My anecdotal experience has
been that someone adding a spammy link is more likely to add it to the
top of the list than someone adding a non-spammy one would be...
Actually, I did look at all of the links in each article, and it was
coincidental that in each case, the only low-utility links were the
last. None of the 19 random articles I checked had more than four
external links (only one of those), and it looked like only one was a
spam-like link, which was added apparently in good-faith by an
infrequent contributor who also contributes to the other project. I have
seen pages with endless external links, and in those, there seems to be
an equal number of spam links at the top and the bottom of the list.
Usually the links in the middle are the best, but of course, YMMV.