On 21/11/2007, jayjg <jayjg99(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Nov 21, 2007 1:02 PM,
<joshua.zelinsky(a)yale.edu> wrote:
> > doing so was the same. Crappy links are
deleted for all sorts of
> > reasons, mostly because they're crappy, even if they would also have
> > been deleted under that strawman BADSITES policy.
> Except none of these were crappy links.
They looked like crappy links to me, but I could be
wrong. Any specifics?
The deletion of encyclopedic links to
nielsenhayden.com by Will Beback.
(I'm assuming you're joining the current discussion in a state of
having had the courtesy to read up on the ongoing discussions and
being up to speed with everyone else, particularly those you're
discussing it with.)
> These were links that would have been
> included in article space but for the fact that they contained material we
> didn't like.
Err, "containing material we don't like"
pretty much covers every link
ever deleted from Wikipedia.
... for other than encyclopedic reasons.
- d.