[WikiEN-l] Links to porn sites

Mon Apr 18 16:37:31 UTC 2005

It is the Prurient content....

Fred

> From: David Gerard <fun at thingy.apana.org.au>
> Reply-To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l at Wikipedia.org>
> Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 02:23:37 +1000
> To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l at Wikipedia.org>
> Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Links to porn sites
> 
> Fred Bauder (fredbaud at ctelco.net) [050419 02:18]:
> 
>> I looked at one, the Mary Carey site. It is a commercial web site for sale
>> of her wares, such as they are. I think she can buy advertising for that
>> purpose and ought not to depend on an encyclopedia article. She is a notable
>> figure, but links might be more appropriately to reports of her notable
>> political activities such as running for governor of California rather than
>> to her store. It's easy enough to google for it anyway.
> 
> 
> Why remove this commercial page in particular, rather than any other
> company page on Wikipedia? That is, this doesn't seem to be the criterion
> commercial links are added or removed on for other articles, so this seems
> a novel policy.
> 
> 
> - d.
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