On 5/28/07, 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).
This has in turn spurred a renewed edit-war over whether the anti- attack-site section should even be in the WP:NPA page, and the page is now under protection again as a result.
See my essay for more on the issue: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Dtobias/Why_BADSITES_is_bad_policy
Why the hell is BADSITES being enforced so mindlessly and so religiously and so utterly retardedly? It's completely beyond me. Anyone with a shred of common sense can see that the status quo, enforced by a group of well-meaning zealots who I am tempted to label idiots as well (but will not, for the sake of civility), is not serving the encyclopaedia.
Johnleemk