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

[Fred Bauder]

> On 25/05/2011, Andreas Kolbe <jayen466 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> Okay, now we are getting somewhere.
>
>> 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.*
>
> To be fair, we don't actually know it's having any effect at all, and
> it could be *lowering* the ranking for the article by sending its
> juice off to other articles around, averaging and diluting it down.
>
> My point was only that we probably shouldn't be doing anything, even
> accidentally, that would be likely to change its link juice over what
> it naturally gets. If it's fairly naturally at the top of the google
> listings, and we haven't done anything odd, then that's perfectly
> fine.
>
>> Andreas
>
> --
> -Ian Woollard

I don't want to get that clever, to the point that we take into account
that even talking about the article on this list might affect ranking.
What is needed is to improve the article; it is about a political act,
not about lube.

Fred