[pydotorg-www] Resource book lists are mostly one publishing house

[M.-A. Lemburg]

Agreed. We had this discussion before, but no action was taken AFAIK.

On 15.12.2019 13:48, Steve Holden wrote:
> 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 <mats at wichmann.us
> <mailto:mats at wichmann.us>> 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?
> 
> 
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