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

[David Gerard]

On 22/01/07, Jeff Raymond <jeff.raymond at internationalhouseofbacon.com> wrote:

> 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.


Because the pages themselves are often appropriate external links, but
the blogs almost never are - and there were enough of them that they
were becoming a problem in themselves.

Note that a link can still be put into the text if you leave the
http:// off the front, so that it's only text. This way a blog post
could be used as e.g. a reference should that be appropriate in a
given caes.


- d.