Since Wikipedia famous “nofollow” trick, I have learned a lot about the term “nofollow”. But also thanks to many discussions that had happened recently I have come to love term “follow”.
But when it comes to Wikipedia, I simply do not care. Why did Wikipedia become a sorto of an online encylopedia is beyond me. I have come more than once across what you can call anything from omissions to errors in many materials on this famous website. Still I am amazed that so may people link to it! Unless of course I am the only one that came across these omissions and errors.
This is my point. If you were using a spam software to protect your blog. Would you keep the software if it protected you against 100 spam comments a day except one. Unfortunately I do not remember exactly where I’ve read it, but it was on one of the blogs I was reading recently. Some one said that one spam comment was one too many.
I wonder if some of the contributors had only one thing in mind by contributing to Wikipedia, that is to get an incoming link from these guys? And if this intention overshadowed everything else along the way.
So I guess my verdict is short. I will not send my readers to a source that contains errors. As to “nofollow” it may actually help them in the long term, since it will help to eliminate people who contributed only to gain a link.