User talk:Quadra630

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[edit] Silicon Valley InfoZone

Hi, whats with adding all these links to Silicon Valley InfoZone? The links are quite broken, sending mime type text/plain instead of text/html. It doesn't render in Mozilla or other standards-compliant browsers (shows the HTML source). Why make these links anyway? They all say "This is a placeholder article, copied from Wikipedia." What is the deal? Thanks. --ChrisRuvolo 20:20, 1 Apr 2005 (UTC)

I have removed these links. I've also cleaned up the wikilinks you made to things with a SiliconValley: prefix. They are unnecessary and would be divisive. --ChrisRuvolo 16:58, 22 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Hi, thanks for your reply on my talk page. Yes, those pages are broken, the HTTP "Content-Type" header is showing text/plain. This will only render properly in MS IE, which ignores the header and tries to determine file type in some other way. You can see this with wget:
> wget -q -s -O - http://www.siliconvalleyinfozone.com/es/Flextronics | head -20
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Fri, 27 May 2005 19:36:47 GMT
Server: Apache
Last-Modified: Fri, 27 May 2005 10:12:02 GMT
ETag: "74438a-891-4296f272"
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Length: 2193
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/plain

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Regarding content, there is no reason why maps to the headquarters and other details cannot be added to Wikipedia. Also, without any/much original/additional content, I don't see it as a link worth having. And certainly, the SVInfoZone links should NOT be the first in the list of external links. I've considered this link spam, since: a) it directs to a site without much additional content, b) links were added en-masse to many articles at once, c) SVInfoZone seems to have few links to it from other web sites and these links would raise its Google pagerank™. I hope it is clear why I removed them. Thanks. --ChrisRuvolo (t) 19:44, 27 May 2005 (UTC)


Sorry, but I must differ with you on all counts. I tested the links in Firefox, Safari, and IE, and they work fine (the pages render as HTML). So, the problem appears to be with your browser, not the website. Also, there is lots of additional content on it - as far as I know, it is the only interactive Silicon Valley map and timeline in existence. Moreover, the links are not spam, as I only added them to relevant articles, and the number of links on here to Yahoo! Finance information (similar idea, different content) far exceeds the number of SVInfoZone links. Quite a few corporation-related articles link to Yahoo! Finance, and no one has complained. Yes, there are not yet many links to SVInfoZone from other sites (I did find a few with a quick search), but that is just because it's only been around for a few months. In time, I'm sure there will be more. So, I'm still not quite clear on why the links had to be removed...
--Quadra630
Oh, how convenient, the pages are now returning text/html. So, SVInfoZone is your website, yes? See Wikipedia:External links#What should not be linked to. --ChrisRuvolo (t) 07:19, 29 May 2005 (UTC)
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