[WikiEN-l] Re: External links and self-linking to my site

[csherlock at ljh.com.au]

With all due respect to Ambi, I feel that this is a little unfair. He 
does promote his website, but I don't think he added that link in bad 
faith. I don't think we're being overly too lenient on him. So long as 
he doesn't start an edit war, I don't have an issue with the link.

If you think that wikinerds is spam, then my advise is to request that 
we add it to our list of websites that we block on our spam filter on 
Metawiki.

TSBDY

Rebecca wrote:
> I think it's a fairly clear example of spamming. Based on a look at
> NSK's contributions, it seems (and doesn't surprise me) that a
> majority of them are adding links, many to his site. Nearly every post
> by NSK to Wikipedia's mailing lists, including this one, is either a)
> trying to convince people to go to his site, or b) trying to convince
> people that Wikipedia needs to be made more like his site. I think by
> this point it's abundantly clear that NSK is here, not to add to
> Wikipedia, but to advertise his own site, and that he's fast becoming
> one of the shining examples of Wikipedia being overgenerous with its
> good faith.
> 
> With this in mind, I think the removal was perfectly justified.
> 
> -- ambi
> 
> On Tue, 11 Jan 2005 22:38:25 -0800, Nicholas Knight
> <nknight at runawaynet.com> wrote:
> 
>>Matt Brown wrote:
>><snip>
>>
>>>I do not think there should be an /a priori/ rule that posting links
>>>to your own sites is forbidden.  On the other hand, one should expect
>>>a certain amount of scrutiny if one does.
>>>
>>>In this case, it looks like your link is on topic and relevant.
>>>Whether it is needed is another matter, but one that can be resolved
>>>in a more peaceable manner.  I don't agree with removing it and citing
>>>as the sole reason that it's a site you put up.
>>
>>Ditto'd. A little extra scrutiny is not unreasonable, but calling it
>>spam simply because it's his own site is pretty much off the deep end.
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