[WikiEN-l] Unreliable sources, or no sources at all?

Chris Howie cdhowie at gmail.com
Tue Mar 25 05:06:38 UTC 2008


On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 5:23 PM, bobolozo <bobolozo at yahoo.com> wrote:
>  An extreme example of this, but... suppose some
>  spammer goes through and adds references to 1000
>  articles in random unsourced paragraphs, with the
>  source given being
>  mortgage-refinance-online-low-prices.biz, totally off
>  topic from any of the articles.  We're now not allowed
>  to remove this spam without gutting all of these
>  articles or spending hundreds of hours digging up sources?

You are confusing irrelevant, spammy sources with relevant, unreliable ones.

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Chris Howie
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