On 23/03/2008, bobolozo bobolozo@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?
No, of course you're allowed to remove that. This is a strawman - there is a very major distinction between maliciously-added spam links and good-faith but-not-very-good actual sources.