[WikiEN-l] Nofollow back on URL links on en.wikipedia.org articles for now

Steve Bennett stevagewp at gmail.com
Sun Jan 21 03:46:39 UTC 2007


On 1/21/07, Bogdan Giusca <liste at dapyx.com> wrote:
> Wikipedia also should always be neutral and it should try not to
> directly influence the events outside of it.

Unfortunately, the nofollow tag forces sites to make that decision.
There's no avoiding it: whether we use nofollow or not, we are
"influencing events" in the outside world.

It's like tipping or not tipping in a restaurant: You have to decide,
and either way there is a consequence.

Steve



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