They've already been warned once. Personal opinion: they should be stopped from spamming our Wiki, in which they currently have undue prominence.
Kind regards, Steve Holden On Sun, Dec 15, 2019 at 5:20 AM Mats Wichmann <[email protected]> wrote: > On 12/14/19 9:55 PM, Frances Hocutt wrote: > > Hello all, > > > > While going through the wiki working on Python 3 updates, I noticed > > that these two pages now stretch to hundreds of books from a single > > publisher: > > > > https://wiki.python.org/moin/IntroductoryBooks > > https://wiki.python.org/moin/AdvancedBooks > > > > This seems like it runs into spamming/broad self-promotion more than a > > usefully curated list of resources, but I'm not familiar with how this > > wiki usually handles that kind of thing. Could someone more familiar > > with this wiki take a look? > > We do have one publisher - Packt - that keeps updating all the time. > They produce books at an astounding rate. I've looked at a fair number > and they're not useless, although they're of fairly low quality in my > personal opinion - it's a kind of "book mill". > > I haven't a clue what we think we should do about them. I think we > warned them a few times about changing the sorting to put their books at > the top, and believe they stopped that and kept to the "alphabetical > order" we suggest. Beyond that... don't think we can say they're doing > something wrong. Without someone curating the list for quality, which we > don't have, it's not clear there's any actual complaint we can make. > > Thanks for asking - it's a good question. > > Anybody else? > > > > > _______________________________________________ > pydotorg-www mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pydotorg-www >
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