[WikiEN-l] BADSITES redux

[David Gerard]

On 22/11/2007, jayjg <jayjg99 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Nov 21, 2007 8:02 PM, Steve Summit <scs at eskimo.com> wrote:

> > What we truly do not need -- which BADSITES promoted, but which
> > some people keep promoting under various guises -- is the notion
> > that off-wiki harassment of a Wikipedia editor is such an
> > uber-mortal sin that we should summarily ban all links to the
> > harassing page and/or the harassing site and/or sites that link
> > to the harassing page or the harassing site.  These extreme
> > sanctions, which involve trampling on various other cherished
> > Wikipedia policies and ideals, are what people were so upset
> > about with BADSITES.  But the fact that people keep taking about
> > (and exercising) similarly extreme sanctions is why BADSITES,
> > despite protestations to the contrary, is still alive, whether
> > under that name or some other.
> > The defenders of the policies-they-don't-want-called-BADSITES
> > keep claiming that their policies are not BADSITES, and that
> > BADSITES is dead, and that stubborn insistence on debating
> > BADSITES is distracting from the real work at hand.

> Who on earth are you talking about here? I hope not me; I was never
> involved in the original BADSITES strawman (never once made an edit to
> the page or Talk: page), nor have I been involved in any of its
> subsequent alleged re-incarnations, variations, alternatives, etc. Is
> there someone in particular you are referring to?


Go back a step, pretend Steve's email doesn't contain words matching
/B?DS?T?S/ and see what you think of the notions presented therein and
please respond with your views on their workability.


- d.