Ian Woollard: do You know their motivation?
I see this oversensitivity to the external links in czech Wikipedia too. I am not that much hurt by their removal, what is hurting me is that the cleaners are sometimes treating (in my opinion) well-intentioned outsiders as spammers. Reo On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 7:11 PM, Ian Woollard <[email protected]>wrote: > On 12 October 2011 06:56, Carcharoth <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I agree absolutely that external links and further reading should be > > used far more than they are. > > > Nah. > > As in yes, but there's an entire noticeboard on Wikipedia devoted entirely > to systematically stamping out external links, whether they're useful or > not. > > Some of the members go from article to article removing ALL the links that > wouldn't get them permanently banned for removing. > > One of the members of that board even decided that they should rewrite one > of the guidelines so that it said that links can only be kept if there's an > *overwhelming* majority that wants any particular link... and then in most > cases if there's an RFC they effectively canvas by posting notices on the > noticeboard to ensure that any majority isn't quite overwhelming enough in > their eyes (and single purpose account !votes count for them), and it looks > like they often edit war links away anyway afterwards, using sock puppets, > irrespective of the result. > > Well, we don't necessarily know who the sock puppet is, but if the sock > puppet is reverted, members of the board frequently, publicly, revert the > revert. > > It does help to organise very > > large external link sections into subsections, both to help readers > > (in finding what may be of interest) and the editors (in trimming > > where needed and organsing what is there). > > > > That's the way it's supposed to work, but I've never seen an external links > section that big, because if it got a tenth that size it would be put up on > the noticeboard and then get gratuitously chopped. And I'm not talking > about > spam links here. > > > > Carcharoth > > > > -- > -Ian Woollard > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
