[WikiEN-l] Another "BADSITES" controversy

[John Lee]

On 5/31/07, Slim Virgin <slimvirgin at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 5/30/07, Joe Szilagyi <szilagyi at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Why not just list them at BADSITES as a "do not link list"? If the
> > *community* agrees on an entry, hey, cool, don't link it. If not, well,
> the
> > community has decided, right? Unless very small minorities on-wiki get
> to
> > decide they know better than everyone else and try to policy wonk or
> game
> > their way to their ends. But that would be wrong, no? ;)
> >
> The problem with that, Joe, is that some members of the "community"
> who've been particularly vocal on the linking issue are regular
> posters to Wikipedia Review. Mango, for example, posts as Papaya.
> Should the people who keep these sites going be the ones to decide our
> policy on linking to them?


As long as they aren't close to a majority of Wikipedians, why the bother?
If they try to overrun our policies and processes, they won't get very far -
and if the rest of the community acquiesces to what they want, it's up to
you to change the rest of the community's mind.

Johnleemk