[WikiEN-l] Gosh darn it, those spammers^Wmarketers will show us what for

[MacGyverMagic/Mgm]

On 1/24/07, Bryan Derksen <bryan.derksen at shaw.ca> wrote:
>
> MacGyverMagic/Mgm wrote:
> > I don't agree with the method, but I certainly can agree with the
> sentiment.
> > It's totally inappropriate to punish all the good links that made
> Wikipedia
> > great just to get rid of a few spammers.
>
> Links don't make Wikipedia great, the encyclopedic content within
> Wikipedia itself makes it great. Most of the time the stuff in the
> external links section could vanish without diminishing the value of the
> article in a significant way.


I'm not talking about the content value of the links. I'm talking about how
the traffic from the sites who link us in return got us where we are.

Mgm