[WikiEN-l] No blogs, portals or sites which have less information than this

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The subject is the edit summary from the edit that removed NSK's link.  Independent of the particulars of NSK's site, this summary is not a valid excuse, wikipedia articles can grow to a level of completeness that most external sites cannot match, yet a lot of our information comes from external sites, and it can be important to cite those sites even though their information has been included in the article and a subsequent editor unfamiliar with the history may now consider them redundant..      -- Silverback

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> Hello. 
> 
> Please check 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Homo_floresiensis&diff=0&oldid=9300527 
> 
> It is about the removal of an external link to my site that I first inserted 
> in October. See: 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Homo_floresiensis&diff=6952756&oldid=6 
> 952087 
> 
> The link is this: http://portal.wikinerds.org/node/103 
> 
> I insert only links that I truly believe are informational and I have no 
> interest to insert any bogus links. I truly believe that my report is 
> informational. 
> 
> Please explain why it was considered inappropriate and give me a link to any 
> external links policies that you may have. 
> 
> The link was removed by Adam Bishop. He contacted me through e-mail and I 
> answered promptly. I explained my concern that my link was removed because it 
> was pointing to a "competing" wikisite. He said that the link was spam 
> because it was pointing to my site. 
> 
> Other links to my site removed by Adam Bishop have been featured on 
> Slashdot.org - check: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/11/28/1825218 and 
> http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/10/19/174240 - Links to wikinerds.org 
> that were featured on these Slashdot stories were added (and subsequently 
> removed by Adam Bishop) in this article: 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Software_Foundation_Europe - I have since 
> inserted links to the Slashdot stories because I believe that they are 
> informational. 
> 
> All that happened the same day I decided to start contributing some of my 
> articles on Wikipedia (and thus relicensing some CC content under GFDL for 
> your use) - See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zsync 
> 
> I don't agree that I should not be allowed to post links to my site just 
> because it is mine. This isn't spam. 
> 
> I post this message on the mailing list because I want a clear answer on 
> whether my link about Homo Floresiensis was spam or not. If the other admins 
> agree with me that self-linking is not spam then I would like Adam Bishop to 
> reconsider and post a public apology on his userpage stating that my link on 
> Homo Floresiensis was not spam. If you decide that the link was not 
> informational, I have no problem with this. But I truly believe that 
> describing it as spam was unfair. Adam Bishop stated in the History log of 
> the Homo Floresiensis article: "01:45, 12 Jan 2005 Adam Bishop (removing 
> spam)" 
> 
> I also promise to not post any other external links without asking on the 
> mailing list or the village pump first. 
> 
> -- 
> NSK 
> Come to see the new wikiprojects at http://portal.wikinerds.org 
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