[WikiEN-l] a few new wrinkles in the external link issue

[MacGyverMagic/Mgm]

On 1/22/07, Jeff Raymond <jeff.raymond at internationalhouseofbacon.com> wrote:
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> 2) Myspace blogs were recently added to the spam blacklist by Raul per
> request of Jimbo, although no one else seems to know why, how, or per
> what rationale.  I won't pretend to know what Jimbo's been up to past
> not having edited Wikipedia since the is-it-or-is-it-not-a decree, but
> perhaps some more explanation on this would be worthwhile?  Seems like
> we're blocking a shitload of otherwise worthwhile primary source
> material for many of our articles for the sake of...well...nothing.
> Meanwhile, a blog ''not'' hosted on MySpace is still a-okay, which is
> patently absurd on its face.  I'm wondering what the thought process was
> on this, since no one else seems to want to chime in.


Other blogs aren't a-okay, but it's simply not possible to block all blogs.
Personally, I will allow blogs as sources when its contents can clearly be
attributed to a notable individual. 99% of MySpace members isn't remotely
notable at all.

Mgm