2006/5/1, daniwo59@aol.com daniwo59@aol.com:
I do not know the solution to this problem--several have been raised, but in my mind none is completely satisfactory. I am simply posting this here in the hope that it will elicit discussion and, perhaps, a real policy decision to counter this worrying trend.
I think that the solution should be to remove many more links than are done now. When I read that Gregory Maxwell removed 45 links from a page and kept another 45, in my opinion he has been rather reserved - rare is in my opinion the page that needs more than 3 links. Wikipedia is not a link collector.
I'll be going through pages on my watchlist and see whether there are any inappropriate links and remove them, then check whether they exist elsewhere on Wikipedia if they appear to be not on the most likely page (which would make it seem they have been spammed).
-- Andre Engels, andreengels@gmail.com ICQ: 6260644 -- Skype: a_engels