----- Original Message ----- From: "Slim Virgin" slimvirgin@gmail.com To: "English Wikipedia" wikien-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Monday, May 28, 2007 11:04 PM Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] A BADSITES RfA piling-on
It's unfair to keep on mentioning that RfA because the candidate's not here to defend himself, but on the other hand, I'm reluctant to let some of these comments stand. Gracenotes's replies about this and other issues worried me because they seemed evasive. For example: "I suppose you mean attack sites as those in which personal attacks are made against Wikipedians, without the intent of improving Wikipedia." That set off alarm bells for me, because *all* these attack sites claim to have the intent of improving WP.
Well, no. In the ongoing Making Light dispute, the site does not claim to intend improving WP - the single thread in question (see my recent posting of all the other threads on that site which have NOTHING to do with Wikipedia, and which should thoroughly trash any characterisation of the site as an "attack site") is simply the poster's explanation of why she has given up on Wikipedia (and if you actually read the thread you would conclude that she's not entirely unjustified in her view).