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I suggest the new term "bandspam" to refer to the promotional pushing of
song links etc
as a way to differentiate internal linkspam from the nominal external
variety. Bands of course
are the most typical form, but sometimes people
Im of course talking about hatnotes - anything on disambig pages should be
fair game.
Current example; some fan pushing this important note at the top of [[Space
suit]]:
*
"Space Suit" is also an instrumental track from They Might Be Giants'
1992 album* Apollo 18<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_18_%28album%29>
*.*
A *space suit* is a complex system of gaments, equipment and environmental
systems designed to keep a person alive...
-SV
I'm amazed.
I'll be writing in-depth responses to a few people shortly, but I'm amazed
at everything that happens when I just go away for a few days.
Parker
Here is another case of something I mentioned to this mailing list some
time ago:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Timwi&diff=104821425&ol…
In a nutshell, the [[Wikipedia:WikiProject UK Parliament
constituencies]] wants to add the parenthesis "(UK Parliament
constituency)" to all constituency articles, even those that don't have
ambiguous names and would therefore -- under the general naming
convention rules -- not have the parenthesis.
These people feel they're completely in the right because they have a
discussion to link to -- a discussion that took place on the WikiProject
page. Since such a discussion cannot override a general rule such as the
Naming Convention, how do I properly respond to this without causing an
edit war (or move war)?
Timwi
For novices i think it is difficult to read these mailing lists.
I think that it would be an idea to have the mailing lists
archived to google groups (which i believe is possible)
If you are worried about the possibility of spam etc we could
set the group to announce, so it is viewable on google groups
but to reply users must sign up in usual way. It would then just
be like a mirror of this groups messages but more easily viewed.
Just a suggestion
Thanks
George
Hi all,
I just noticed this one. Whenever you have a date, like the 5th of
October, you're supposed to link it, so that the MediaWiki software
can reformat it according to the user's preferences: [[5 October]].
However, you're never supposed to link *anything* in section headings.
So is this page following the guidelines or breaking them?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kei_car
Steve
I just came across this user page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:%24_London_Apartments
(That %24 is a dollar sign.) Intrigued by the weird user name, I had a
look - at first glance it's a regular user page. But as you read it
more carefully, you discover the preponderance of certain words, like
"London", "apartment", "rent", "renting", "house", and "first floor".
As you get further down, you see a bunch of "useful" links to other
sites, one of which is coincidentally called "London Apartments".
A glance at the user contributions shows almost nothing but
modifications to their own page, despite what the text on the page
claims. There are a couple of trivial edits to other pages.
Spam? Or real person? I seek the wisdom of the collective....
--
Earle Martin
http://downlode.org/http://purl.org/net/earlemartin/
I'm wondering what the opinions of "influential Wikipedians" are regarding
this MSNBC poll that shows 40% of over a thousand people think like I do?
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16795533/
Clearly, I'm in the minority, but it's certainly not a small minority. I
would also love to learn (if it were only possible) what the demographics
are of those who responded "No way" versus those who responded "Sure". I
would venture a guess that the average age and household income of those
saying "Sure" is higher than those who say "No way".
Also, I'd like to mention here to Guy Chapman that he's either
deleting/ignoring the three civilly-worded e-mails I have sent him, or he's
not getting them whatsoever. Geni did me a favor and e-mailed Guy, too --
but I've not heard back from either of them. Guy, care to comment about
whether you're "taking" correspondence at your spamcop address?
--
Gregory Kohs
Cell: 302.463.1354