On Mon, 14 Apr 2003, sannse wrote:
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2003 20:12:11 +0100 From: sannse sannse@delphiforums.com Subject: [WikiEN-l] http://www.countryguide.com
A contributor has added links to http://www.countryguide.com/ on many pages (see http://www.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Special:Contributions&target.... 41.45.22 ) I don't think the links are particularly useful, they just lead to more links and this just seems like advertising to me. I'm inclined to remove them all, but am not sure enough to do so without checking first. What is policy on links like these?
I agree, when this person first started adding them, it was even worse, but I (along with another user or two) worked out a reasonable compromise that let the links stay without being as POV as they were at first (I think it revolved around use of a word like "excellent" to describe it, and one other phrase). I'd really rather not see them at all, but I didn't want to be too heavy-handed in refusing "contributions" either (especially as I wasn't a sysop then). So I wouldn't be too saddened by their loss.