[WikiEN-l] A war on external links? Was: Inside Higher Ed: Does Wikipedia Suck?

[Carcharoth]

That probably misses the flux. How many links are added and then
almost immediately removed? That won't be picked up in something like
that, I don't think.

Carcharoth

On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 4:06 AM, Angela <beesley at gmail.com> wrote:
> I made this page a few years ago:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Angela/Links_study
>
> Updating it for 2010 doesn't provide any evidence that there was a war
> on external links any time recently. Maybe there was one in 2006?
>
> Total links in the external links section of 8 articles (Russia,
> marketing, Star Wars, SEO, TVR, medicine, Jewellery, and Tamagotchi):
>
> 2010    = 48
> 2009    = 46
> 2008    = 40
> 2007    = 50
> 2006    = 81
> 2005    = 51
> 2004    = 50
> 2003    = 10
> 2002    = 2
> 2001    = 2
>
> Angela
>
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