On 5/30/07, Andrew Gray shimgray@gmail.com wrote:
On 30/05/07, jayjg jayjg99@gmail.com wrote:
I am saying that if we want to prohibit linking to Wikipedia Review, we come out and say so directly and simply and clearly. Don't beat around the bush with vague talk of "attack sites" that someone can come back to later and twist around to play silly buggers with - because they can and will.
People will always wikilawyer any rule, but that doesn't mean they shouldn't be made. The remedy for wikilawyering is common sense, as always. Moreover, rules should be as general as possible; Wikipedia shouldn't have a policy about one specific item.
We have a situation where the problem is with a couple of specific sites. We have people wanting to ban linking to those sites. Every discussion involved seems to be about those two sites.
Well, there are a couple of pretty egregious offenders, that's true. But that's not really the point.