"David Gerard" wrote
On 12/10/2007, charles.r.matthews(a)ntlworld.com
<charles.r.matthews(a)ntlworld.com> wrote:
William Pietri wrote
> Sorry for the confusion. When I say
"BADSITES" I am referring to any
> proposed or actual policy that we not link to certain sites because
> there are things on them that some people don't like. I'm glad to use
> another name if you'd like to suggest one.
No, please respect the convention that if you
write BADSITES you are talking about WP:BADSITES. I don't know why you think it is
helpful to make this refer to something so general as you describe. I think if you want to
talk about hypotheticals on external linking policy, and especially since you want to
float the idea that some "people" want a veto on external links, you owe to the
discussion to be much clearer.
I note you haven't come up with a name you prefer.
In any case, I and others will continue to refer to it as BADSITES
when it's indistinguishable in practice.
You can't hinder discussion of something by trying to stop people
using the names for things.
I thought I was saying that someone can easily hinder discussion by Humpty-Dumtyfying it:
saying "when I say X, X means what I mean by it".
"...because there are things on them that some people don't like" ... you
know, this is stupefyingly vague. It could refer to anything from an outing of a
Wikipedian to blasphemy.
I think the intended reference is to a vapourpolicy WP:HIGH-HANDED, under which the
"usual suspects" would be entitled to delete external links. Fill in "usual
suspects" with a personal choice of "over-miighty admins", despite the
apparent absence of any reference in this discussion to admins.
Oh, though, I forgot the timely reminders that this is apparently all about
"banning". I should quite like to have such a "banning" happen, so
that the ArbCom could throw the book at some admin who was very clearly acting in a
high-handed manner.
Charles
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