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

[Oskar Sigvardsson]

On 1/23/07, The Cunctator <cunctator at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 1/20/07, Brion Vibber <brion at pobox.com> wrote:
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> > Having been requested by Jimmy to do so, and having seen a fun rumor of
> > a "search engine optimization world championship" contest targeting
> > WP[1], I've gone ahead and switched rel="nofollow" back onto URLs in
> > en.wikipedia.org's article namespace.
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> Does Jimmy have that authority? Should this have  gone through the board?
> Did it?

You know very well that the board lets Jimbo run wikipedia. If they
have a problem with his actions, they can do something about it, but
lets face it: for the first half-decade that Jimbo's been in control,
he's done a pretty darn good job.

This is just wikilawyering.

--Oskar