On 11/29/07, Guy Chapman aka JzG <guy.chapman(a)spamcop.net> wrote:
On Wed, 28 Nov 2007 23:32:07 -0500, "Daniel R.
Tobias"
<dan(a)tobias.name> wrote:
The drama doesn't generally begin until
somebody throws a hissy-fit
about the links and tries to remove them.
Or when someone reflexively reinserts them shouting ZOMG! BADSITES!
Which nobody is doing.
I've counted the links to WR from time to time. I believe the tally
immediately after the original crisis was 183; some time later, during
one of the later crises, I believe I came up with a total of 203. Now
we are back down to 181. The most recent link I can find is one that
was put on my talk page (by someone else) in June, though I have to
say that I didn't look very hard.
In the aftermath of DennyColt's original assault, I did go back and
revert a bunch of links, including the one's that popped up on my
watchlist. I didn't revert all of them because a lot of them seemed to
be no particular loss (e.g. a bunch of otherwise unexplained links to
the site as a whole on talk pages). Since then I've pretty much
foresworn doing so, based upon the threats left on my talk page by
various pro-BADSITES admins after I cited material on WR in the course
of the early discussions. If anyone else is reverting them, I'm not
seeing it.
It appears that the truth is that the only significant reversions of
late (meaning after the original flap) have been in cases such as
Making Light and Michael Moore and other cases where the consensus has
been that the erasures were unwarranted. Most recently the only
activity has revolved around WP:NPA and the repeated attempts to
reinsert BADSITES language in it; even the attempts to deny that
BADSITES was rejected seem to have stopped.
Nobody is saying "ZOMG! BADSITES!" about WR these days, at least not
where I can read it.