From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 09 Aug 2010 22:28:07 GMT
Subject: Re: wiki "abuse"
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2010/8/10 Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>:
> 2010/8/9 Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>:
>> Huh? He is still blocked AFAICS:
>
> Yes, but _before_ he was blocked.

He said the first thing he does in a wiki is to edit his user page.

Anyway, I don't see why are we arguing this, by well-intentioned I
meant not linking to party poker or something like that. He couldn't
know that editing his user page was frowned-upon since there are no
guidelines about it, so he didn't do anything wrong. Just unblock him.

Here's a useful Wikipedia guideline: assume good faith:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Assume_good_faith

>> That would make certain pages not useful:
>> https://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/GitProjects
>
> That page is just as useful as or nofollow attribute. The only thing
> the nofollow attribute does is makes the pagerank not flow through. It
> doesn't make that page any less useful as a jump-board for humans.

Oh, OK then.

-- 
Felipe Contreras