On 06/06/07, Cheney Shill halliburton_shill@yahoo.com wrote:
--- David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
http://www.cheezhead.com/2007/06/01/troy-smith-wikipedia/
Do we have editors getting vicious on these by default?
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? Or are you in charge of Wikipedia advertiser -SEO spin control?
I know, it's shocking. We didn't spot an astroturfing link added to one of one point eight million pages until after the fact? Clearly this is utterly unacceptable, a grave dereliction of duty, and entirely well below the high standards we are entitled to expect. Anyone who tries to present it in any other way should be flogged, and there is nothing we can remotely discuss about this subject except how many lashes to give them.
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More practically, it looks pretty innocuous in context - "fans set up a website [link] urging..." - not the usual house style, but it looks legitimate. If it had been dropped in as an extlink, it'd probably have vanished faster.
If there's no obvious context to believe it's spam, it's rather unlikely we ought to have expected someone to remove it out of hand to begin with.