Wikipedia:Spam event horizon

The Spam Event Horizon is a stage in the development of the external links section of an article. The development goes something like this:

1. Sources, which are reliable sources of information used in the creation of the article
2. Authorities on the subject, such as major organsiations with an interest
3. Points of view starting to crrep in, minority dissent from the authorities and other monographs
4. Spam for commercial providers in related industries
5. vanispamcruft links to www.myspace.com/randomuser/randomthoughts.htm added by their authors because "I think that too"
6. the Spam Event Horizon' where the number of links is so long that no realistic attempt is made to assess individual links on a continuing basis for relevance or indeed existence.

Once an article has passed the Spam Event Horizon, the number of links to commerical providers (soetimes several links to different pages on the same site), geocities/myspace/whatever sites, blogs, POV rants and other cruft begins to spiral out of control. When the external links section is broken down into subsections, you know something is seriously wrong.

As an example, here is the external links section from fathers' rights as at 30 Dec 2005. You won't persuade me that this is anythign other than mad linkspamming.

External links

Australia

• A fathers' rights movement website in Australia

Canada

• How to end the war against divorced dads article by Donna Laframboise, National Post, 28 March 2000
• BC Fathers

• Fathers Canada

Ireland

• Irish fathers' website

Israel

• News Agency article about Israel Fathers Rights Advocacy Council (IFRAC) a civil rights movement campaigning for a child's right to see both parents

Italy

• Italian fathers' website

United Kingdom

• All off Dr. Lowenstein's publications on Parental Alienation
• Bob Geldof & Fathers rights - marriage and divorce videos
• Angry Harry Men's Movement and father's rights.
• DFES's Every Child Matters website
  • DFES's Every Child Matters Green paper (pdf)
  • DFES's Keeping Children Safe (pdf)
    • Response to Every Child Matters and Keeping Children Safe
    • Victoria Climbié enquiry
• The Children Bill
  • National child database at heart of Children Act reforms says Clarke (05-March-2004)
• Minister of State for Children
• Directory of MPs, Peers and Offices
• On Suicide
• Have your say
• Mother who denied access jailed Article illustrating that [penal notice]s can be used to effect

United States of America

In the US, family law is different in each state, and there are a large number of support groups, lobbying organisations and protest groups all over the country.

• Abuse Excuse Help and support for those falsely accused of abuse in family court
• AKidsRight.Org
• Alliance for Non-Custodial Parents Rights (ANCPR)
• American Coalition for Fathers and Children (ACFC) Largest member-supported shared parenting organization in the US
• BSI International In search of fatherhood
• Center for Family Policy and Practice (CFFPP) Nationally-focused public policy organization ...barriers faced by never-married, low-income fathers and their families.
• Children's Justice
• Children's Rights Council Works to assure children meaningful and continuing contact with both their parents and extended family regardless of the parents' marital status
• Dad Magazine
• DadsNow
• Dr. Stephen Baskerville Writings in favor of fathers' rights
• Dr. Warren Farrell - writings in favor of fathers' rights
• Equal Justice Foundation (EJF)
• Fathers 4 Justice
• Guidelines Economics Developer of the Cost Shares model of child support guidelines
• Help Stop Parental Alienation Syndrome Inc. Disorder that arises almost exclusively in the context of child-custody disputes.
• His Side with Glenn Sacks pro-Fathers' Rights radio show
• House Co-sponsors (30) of Fatherhood Act of 2001 Provide grants to States to encourage media campaigns to promote responsible fatherhood skills, and for other purposes.
• Judicial Accountability Initiative Law End the rampant and pervasive judicial corruption in the legal system
• Equal custodial rights and Justice For Children Children's rights and their protection from Family court abuse.
• Fathers For Virginia Equal Parental Rights for all Children separated by divorce or custody.
• Million Dads March Information network of all parents'/children's/fathers'/mothers' rights groups focusing upon coordination of events in the USA
• National Men’s Equality Congress Leadership conference
• Parental Alienation Syndrome Book
• Parents Without Rights The original 50/50 parenting organization based in Florida.
• Separated Parenting Access and Resource Center (SPARC)
• U.S. Department of Health and Human Services - Fatherhood Initiative