[WikiEN-l] [Wikitech-l] Reasons never to remove nofollow

[Andrew Cates]

I don't get it (or at least understand it that way). The article says 
wikipedia (with nofollow) generates lots of traffic and is very 
valuable. So nofollow doesn't put people off spamming. Everytime we ask 
at Project Wikispam everyone agree adding nofollow hasn't helped at all. 
All it does is give a false warming feeling to people "at least these 
SoBs aren't getting pagerank from us". And nofollow is a 6m Neon sign 
saying "our content cannot be trusted" so the true warming feeling goes 
to Britannica.

BozMo

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