On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 8:02 PM, Matt Jacobs <sxeptoman...@gmail.com> wrote:
<snip> > I see nothing unwiki-like in suggesting that a person should defend their > additions to an article when disputes arise. That's a pretty standard > expectation in any collaborative environment. There's no lack of assumption > of good faith involved in an editor removing an addition if they have reason > to believe it is not beneficial to the article. But what if the editors can't agree on whether the link benefits the article? To get specific, I found a resource and was getting ready to add links to lots of articles, but pulled back after others didn't seem as excited as me about the resource: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_%28miscellaneous%29/Archive_24#British-Path.C3.A9_news_clips_archive http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:External_links/Noticeboard/Archive_2#British-Path.C3.A9_news_clips_archive It now has 359 links: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:LinkSearch&limit=250&offset=250&target=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.britishpathe.com Back in January, there were 130 links (you will have to take my word for that, as posted in that discussion, as I didn't take a screenshot). So it seems the use of such links (to archived news reel clips) can spread without too much pushback or people worrying about spamming. But if someone had added 200 links in just a few days, that would have worried some people. Should they have been worried? Carcharoth _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
