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This article is just a list of external links to organizations (both commercial and non-profit.) I think this is outside the scope of what
Knowledge is meant to be. There are other, better places for a web directory such as this. Apparently, this list has been prodded/deleted/restored. I think an
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The list is a sundry assembly of different providers many of which are simply companies trying to sell a product (an "offset")--in its present form it's bound to grow uncontrollably and become an advertising platform as more and more business-savvy people will enter this fast-growing rogue market.
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It may look like a jumble, but it was actually requested, and it's growing a lot and may soon evolve into a fullworthy article. In fact, external websites have linked to it for the overview it gives of providers. Second, it keeps offset providers from adding endlessly to the external links in the
248:: as far as I'm concerned, if they don't belong in the main article, they don't belong in a spin-off either. If any of these companies are actually notable, perhaps a category might be more appropriate than a list; the list is not and cannot be complete, and is just a spam-magnet.
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There is no question that this article violates guidelines, as noted above, about what
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