On 11/30/07, Guy Chapman aka JzG guy.chapman@spamcop.net wrote:
On Fri, 30 Nov 2007 09:22:09 -0500, "The Mangoe" the.mangoe@gmail.com wrote:
Guy, if we are going to start down the "unsupported assertion" route, we can start with "There exists on Wikipedia a small group of people who will reflexively revert any removal of any link to external harassment, shouting 'ZOMG! BADSITES!' and calling the world to come and look." In an discussion with a point, it seems to me to be more worthwhile to address the statement whether or not it is supported.
Oh, wait, we cited a diff for that, didn't we. Never mind.
Did you? It's a semi-serious question: the original message I quoted from is lost in the swamp of the archives, so maybe there was. As for the Robert Black case, if the admins had simply done the reversion of the erasure themselves, probably it would have amounted to even less than what happened. Instead, it appears that they took advantage of someone else starting the game to put in a few innings on BADSITES's behalf.