[WikiEN-l] SEO

[K P]

On 9/3/07, Durova <nadezhda.durova at gmail.com> wrote:
> *Good, the journals now take my being shot down for trying to stop them
> for spamming Wikipedia as an open invitation to add any academic
> journals and books to all articles all over Wikipedia.  And create as
> many sock puppet accounts, or use as many IPs as they want to do it.
> Forget it that I work over these articles to try to make sure that
> every outside source and link is directly related and important and
> useful to readers.  Forget that we discuss them for weeks on WP:Plants
> and on the article talk pages.  It's clear that it's more important to
> let these people spam the fuck out of Wikipedia.
>
> KP
>
> **http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/64.62.138.21*<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/64.62.138.21>
>
>
> Where were you shot down for trying to stop journals from spamming?
> Although actual referencing is welcome, spam is still spam.  I favor a
> softer approach with this sort of poster because there's a better
> possibility that the individual will become a useful contributor, but I also
> recall a deliberate and rather baldfaced campaign by one university library
> to boost its site traffic by adding low quality links to Wikipedia articles.
>
> -Durova


I asked them to post and discuss their additions on the article's talk
page already.

KP