On Mar 18, 2009, at 4:53 AM, Lester Caine wrote: > While the effort being put into links WITH wikipedia are to be > applauded, many of us are no longer contributing to wikipedia > because of > their propensity to kill of material that is not 'noteworthy'! > > On a number of occasions in the past I have linked to articles only > later to find the 'censors' message at the end of a link :( and I know > we have had this discussion in the past where other OSM contributors > have found the same problem.
This is a serious enough issue that it should be escalated to the OSMF. They should make an arrangement with Wikipedia saying: that an article linked from OSM to Wikipedia is by definition noteworthy, and that that justification cannot be used to delete an article from Wikipedia. There might be other reasons: for example that the locations linked between OSM and Wikipedia are in fact not related, or the *location* is not worth including in OSM. If we're going to cooperate with Wikipedia, then they need to cooperate with us by not allowing any dangling links. -- Russ Nelson - http://community.cloudmade.com/blog - http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:RussNelson r...@cloudmade.com - Twitter: Russ_OSM - http://openstreetmap.org/user/RussNelson _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
