[WikiEN-l] yay external links!

[Charlotte Webb]

On 6/6/07, Cheney Shill <halliburton_shill at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Shouldn't the question be why didn't the editors/admins
> catch the PR/spam/bomb before it drove 21% of traffic to a
> site that had 40,000 hits?

Maybe because it didn't affect Wikipedia in the least.

Maybe, because we've got more urgent things to worry about, like users
who post vandalism, or libel, or copyright violations, or dozens of
more serious types of sabotage. The kind that actually affects the
credibility of our content.

—C.W.