On 28/05/07, Daniel R. Tobias dan@tobias.name wrote:
The latest skirmish in the never-ending civil war over linking to so- called "attack sites" is the one where [[User:Will Beback]] has taken onto himself to purge Wikipedia of all links to the site of notable science fiction editor [[Teresa Nielsen Hayden]], even though they are used as reliable sources for quite a number of diverse things, because in her blog she attacked Beback (she seems to have some issues with Wikipedia in general).
...the Making Light thread on Wikipedia was an "attack site?" For goodness' sake, *I* wrote chunks of it...
See my essay for more on the issue: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Dtobias/Why_BADSITES_is_bad_policy
BADSITES always was a bad idea that looked seductively good...