Talk:Bloggernacle

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[edit] Links

I'm thinking that the links sections are growing too long. Wiki is an encyclopida, not a web-ring. My idea would be to keep us down to 5 or so links in each categroy, as it would give a reader more than enough resources to find out about the bloggernacle... the main sites have links to all the smaller sites anyway. Thoughts? --Measure 17:34, July 20, 2005 (UTC)

On second thought, we could probably get away with making a page titled "List of Bloggernacle Blogs" and send the links there. I'll start the process, but wait to see if anyone has input on this before I move any links. --Measure 18:26, July 20, 2005 (UTC)

There are hundreds (if not thousands) of LDS blogs. It would be a very long list if one were to be compiled. It would also be necessary to regularly prune the list for defunct and new blogs. For this reason, I do not think a page of lists of members of the Bloggernacle should be maintained on Wikipedia. I am also somewhat opposed to providing links at all to members of the Bloggernacle outside of the very popular ones. Many of the solo ones listed for example are not prominent at all. Several of them I have not heard of. What criteria was sued to determine their prominence? I can also think of several group and solo blogs that have been around longer than any of the blogs listed, yet none of them are listed. I think we should get away from listing the blogs and perhaps link to third-party lists of bloggernacle members, such as http://www.ldsblogs.org/ or http://planet.kzion.com/ --Kmsiever 16:09, 21 July 2005 (UTC)

So, do you think we should remove the link sections entirely? I'd support that, with an external link to one of the sites you mentioned. --Measure 16:29, July 22, 2005 (UTC)

I support the links section being removed completely and being replaced with an external link. --Kmsiever 18:16, 22 July 2005 (UTC)

I too had some reservations at an earlier point about the way lists of bloggernacle sites were being provided but felt that some kind of approach to this was needed. I like what Measure and Kmsiever have worked out here and the resulting edits make a lot more sense than what was there previously. These changes eliminate that sense of arbitrary listings of some LDS blogs and lack of mention of others. Nice work. --danithew 13:45, July 27, 2005

Seeing no objections, I'll go ahead and make the changes. Hopefully the number of annonymous contributors to this article doesn't lead to some kind of edit war... --Measure 19:23, July 26, 2005 (UTC)