From: David Gerard fun@thingy.apana.org.au
a) It's not at all clear to me that http://portal.wikinerds.org/node/103
adds
much to the http://en.wikipedia.org/Homo_floriensis article b) Even if it does, it's not clear that the Wikinerds link is the best source, or even a particularly good source for that information. It is
not
nearly as close to the source, or as authoritative as several of the
other
links that are already in the article. c) NSK does have a clear promotional interest in wanting to build up his site.
I have no hesitation in reverting this variety of edit as spam, and usually in blocking the IP if it's an anon. I fully expect to continue as well. Because it is spam.
If it's not one of *the* *best* possible links the article could have, and it's not a reference used in the article, there's no reason for it to be there. Hence the frequent edit summary "Wikipedia is not dMoz". (Or Wikia.)
Well, sure.
I said it was borderline, I said it was skating on thin ice, and I said that NSK shouldn't be surprised if people removed his links.
If I found one of his links on a page that's on my watchlist and that I specially care about, I'd click on the link and read the page it linked to. If it struck me as pure spam, I'd probably delete it. But if it struck me as being egg bacon spam and sausage, I might figure "that's not got much spam" and leave it in.
The actual Homo floriensis link under discussion struck me as being more like spam spam spam spam spam spam spam beaked beans spam spam spam and spam.
It is, of course, very easy for NSK to avoid the issue altogether, and he doesn't need to "leave Wikipedia" to do it.