Hi,

Several times I have seen external link spammage: someone, typically not logged in, adds links to their product/homepage etc. in several articles vaguely related to it. With the growing popularity of both wikipedia and spamming, we can only expect external link spam to increase ;^)

When I see such links in the body of an article, I just remove the them (it is usually clear from the context whether it is spam or if it is a relevant link that needs to be moved to the external links section). But when they are in the external links section I'm not sure what to do.

I think merely being related to the subject of the article is not enough justification for having an external link, it has to enhance the reader's understanding of the subject etc. So if it doesn't meet that criterion I think I can remove external links. Any objection?

Arvind