http://www.cheezhead.com/2007/06/01/troy-smith-wikipedia/ insight and opinion from the mind of joel cheesman Sat, 05 Jul 2008 23:17:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.2 http://www.cheezhead.com/2007/06/01/troy-smith-wikipedia/#comment-29897 Gregory Kohs Thu, 07 Jun 2007 20:35:20 +0000 http://www.cheezhead.com/2007/06/01/troy-smith-wikipedia/#comment-29897 Mark, you forgot the exception to that "Prude" rule -- if the external link is to Wikia.com (Jimbo Wales' own private financially-driven wiki), then it's okay to add as many as you care to. Count the number of external links from Wikipedia to Wikia -- last I bothered to, there were over 4,000. Mark, you forgot the exception to that “Prude” rule — if the external link is to Wikia.com (Jimbo Wales’ own private financially-driven wiki), then it’s okay to add as many as you care to. Count the number of external links from Wikipedia to Wikia — last I bothered to, there were over 4,000.

]]> http://www.cheezhead.com/2007/06/01/troy-smith-wikipedia/#comment-29397 Mark Gallagher Mon, 04 Jun 2007 09:27:49 +0000 http://www.cheezhead.com/2007/06/01/troy-smith-wikipedia/#comment-29397 A good rule of thumb when trying to make certain changes to Wikipedia is, if you have to worry about "get[ting] past" those of us who are committed to keeping Wikipedia content high-quality, you probably shouldn't be making those changes. But call me Mr Prude if you must. A good rule of thumb when trying to make certain changes to Wikipedia is, if you have to worry about “get[ting] past” those of us who are committed to keeping Wikipedia content high-quality, you probably shouldn’t be making those changes. But call me Mr Prude if you must.

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