04-11-2006, 09:30 AM
Quote:I recently witnessed someone at Wikipedia.org placing dozens of links to his own website. Its not all that unusual for someone to place a link to their own website on the Wikipedia site, but generally the links get removed. The unusual facts of this case are the amount of links placed, dozens, and the fact that those links led to pages filled with unorginal content. So, I thought Id follow the story, and write up an article on how to successfully publish content youve copied from other sources and get Wikipedia to link to it.
The first thing I did was place a couple of links to my own site on a handful of those pages, to see what admin would come out of the woodword. I got GraemeL. So, I posted a message to him asking why he removed my link, but not the dozens that the other guy listed. You can find that conversation here. This brief exchange resulted in GraemeL removing the dozens of links the other guy placed. End of story, right? Nope...
full article: http://www.petertdavis.net/176-wikipedia...-to-guide/