[WikiEN-l] Another "BADSITES" controversy

[Matthew Brown]

On 5/30/07, jayjg <jayjg99 at gmail.com> wrote:
> The purpose of BADSITES was, in general, to ensure that any policy
> like BADSITES would never be passed, and in particular to insure that
> links to WR would not be removed from Wikipedia.

It seems to me that this argument has only been recently put forward
and yet the whole controversy about the proposal is much older than
this.  I'm having trouble reconciling the two.

-Matt