[WikiEN-l] Links to porn sites

Mon Apr 18 16:37:40 UTC 2005

I would agree with Tony with a caveat. For a sports related link you can
often get a lot of information. For instance if you go to
www.nashvillepredators.com you can get significant information about the
team (for instance you can get the box scores for every game the team
has ever played). This information is all freely available to anyone who
wants it. However, -most- adult oriented sites simply exist to take your
money and show you porn.

I would submit that there is a different level of "commerciality"
involved between the average porn site and the average non-porn
corporate site since the primary commodity of the porn site is the porn
site itself.

I would think that we should be hesitant to link to any web sites (porn
or otherwise) whose primary commodity is selling access or "memberships"
to the website, and more liberal with links to other types of
industries.

-Kevin

> -----Original Message-----
> From: wikien-l-bounces at Wikipedia.org [mailto:wikien-l-
> bounces at Wikipedia.org] On Behalf Of Tony Sidaway
> Sent: Monday, April 18, 2005 11:30 AM
> To: wikien-l at Wikipedia.org
> Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Links to porn sites
> 
> David Gerard said:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> That's what I thought last time someone suggested some removals from
> another sexual subject.  Different criteria may be applied to sexual
sites
> (I'm open to the possibility, though it seems far-fetched if the site
is
> otherwise encyclopedic) but if we do adopt a "no commercial links"
> approach to sexual topics we should not pretend that they're the same
> criteria that would be applied to, say, sports.
> 
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