[Foundation-l] Free advertising on Wikipedia

Kelly Martin kelly.lynn.martin at gmail.com
Mon May 1 14:20:27 UTC 2006


On 5/1/06, Erik Moeller <eloquence at gmail.com> wrote:
> I don't much like the idea of effectively punishing thousands of
> perfectly fine sites because of a few people who pee in the proverbial
> public pool.

How does turning on nofollow punish anyone?  Nobody is entitled to
free pagerank just because they've been listed on Wikipedia.

I see no good reason not to turn on nofollow for en.  I also note that
de has been nofollow for quite a while now.

Kelly



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