[WikiEN-l] Wikipedia article on [[Santorum (neologism)]]

[The Cunctator]

You are ascribing motive to Cirt's activities. Assume Good Faith.

This is starting to feel like something that should be dealt with by
interested parties engaging with each other, rather than researching on
wiki-en.

On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 6:34 AM, Andreas Kolbe <jayen466 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> --- On Wed, 25/5/11, Ian Woollard <ian.woollard at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > From: Ian Woollard <ian.woollard at gmail.com>
> > Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Wikipedia article on [[Santorum (neologism)]]
> > To: "English Wikipedia" <wikien-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
> > Date: Wednesday, 25 May, 2011, 7:53
> > On 23/05/2011, geni <geniice at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > > Google's search results are entirely their business.
> >
> > Actually not entirely, we do have quite a bit of control.
> >
> > In an absolute worse case we could noindex the entire
> > article (I'm not
> > suggesting it, in fact I strongly recommend against it).
> >
> > But google pay attention to how many articles link to it,
> > and there's
> > an enormous 'political neologism' template at the end of
> > the article,
> > which makes them all mutually link.
> >
> > I can't estimate how much link juice that pushes into the
> > article, but
> > it may well be substantial, there's probably relatively few
> > Wikipedia
> > articles that link to the term otherwise, terms don't
> > usually get that
> > many links, but I don't know how many external links in
> > there are, or
> > how much link juice they supply.
> >
> > There is probably a reasonably strong argument for
> > nofollowing
> > internal 'link farms' like that, I don't see that one term
> > should
> > inherit another's link juice, but I couldn't see any
> > obvious way to
> > nofollow internal links when I checked briefly.
>
>
> Okay, now we are getting somewhere. There are actually three templates at
> the bottom of the article:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Dan_Savage
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Political_neologisms
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Sexual_slang
>
> The sexual slang one in particular is massive, listing more than 100
> terms.
>
> These templates are all new creations by Cirt, the Santorum article's main
> author. They were created between 10 and 15 May, shortly after Santorum
> announced he might run for President, and then added to all the other
> articles listed in the templates, thus creating a couple of hundred
> incoming
> links, and enhancing the article's Google ranking.
>
> Now, *that's using Wikipedia for political campaigning.*
>
> By the way, Cirt's GA articles include this highly flattering portrait of
> a gay porn company: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corbin_Fisher
>
> Andreas
>
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