On 7/3/07, Fred Bauder fredbaud@waterwiki.info wrote:
-----Original Message----- From: Slim Virgin [mailto:slimvirgin@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, July 2, 2007 10:56 PM To: 'English Wikipedia' Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] FredBauder"clarifies"onattackkkkkkkkk site link policy
On 7/2/07, Fred Bauder fredbaud@waterwiki.info wrote:
You got it. BADSITES was nothing but provocation. An attempt to overturn the policy it supposedly supported by generalizing.
It worked on the principle that the best way to get rid of a bad law is to enforce it.
I'll never accept linking to personal attacks on Wikipedians. I don't care how futile it is considered to be or how bad such "censorship" is. And it a site makes a regular business of attacking Wikipedians, not criticizing, but attacking, I will oppose linking to the site at all. I can see only good coming out of supporting other editors and only harm coming out of tolerating their humiliation.
Exactly right.
I want to clarify that when I wrote above that the BADSITES proposal worked on the principle that the best way to get rid of a bad law is to enforce it, I meant that this was the mindset of the proposer, not that I agreed with it. It seems to have been a strawman proposal, intended only to cause arguments, and it was singularly successful in that regard.