[WikiEN-l] http://www.countryguide.com

Mon Apr 14 19:59:52 UTC 2003

On Mon, 14 Apr 2003, sannse wrote:

> Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2003 20:12:11 +0100
> From: sannse <sannse at delphiforums.com>
> Subject: [WikiEN-l] http://www.countryguide.com
> 
> A contributor has added links to http://www.countryguide.com/ on many pages
> (see
> http://www.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Special:Contributions&target=65.
> 41.45.22 )  I don't think the links are particularly useful, they just lead
> to more links and this just seems like advertising to me.  I'm inclined to
> remove them all, but am not sure enough to do so without checking first.
> What is policy on links like these?

	I agree, when this person first started adding them, it was even 
worse, but I (along with another user or two) worked out a reasonable 
compromise that let the links stay without being as POV as they were at 
first (I think it revolved around use of a word like "excellent" to 
describe it, and one other phrase). I'd really rather not see them at all, 
but I didn't want to be too heavy-handed in refusing "contributions" 
either (especially as I wasn't a sysop then). So I wouldn't be too 
saddened by their loss. 

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