On 03/04/06, Steve Bennett stevage@gmail.com wrote:
On 4/2/06, Finlay Logan flogan1@swarthmore.edu wrote:
To respond to some other people re: spamming. People can already do that, but they don't, really. I'm going to take the optimistic view and say this: that I intend only to add sources that I have read or am at least familiar with, and to accompany the less obvious listings with a short description. If someone posts a long list of sources with no explanation, other editors can sift through them, adding commentary, and removing the ones that seem truly spurious. This is how the rest of WP works, I don't see that this will be much different.
I don't know about books, but people *do* add unhelpful "external links" very frequently. Usually it's some massively broad topic, and they add their own favourite fansite, personal webpage or whatever. I'm inclined to think it's generally in good faith - they're not aware that these lists are deliberately kept short and concise.
I've seen people adding a book, singular, to the references section a good few times; I assume they're treating it as "further reading" and just being helpful.
(But, then, I'm also the sort of person who includes Further Reading sections...)
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