On 21/11/2007, jayjg jayjg99@gmail.com wrote:
On Nov 21, 2007 1:02 PM, joshua.zelinsky@yale.edu wrote:
doing so was the same. Crappy links are deleted for all sorts of reasons, mostly because they're crappy, even if they would also have been deleted under that strawman BADSITES policy.
Except none of these were crappy links.
They looked like crappy links to me, but I could be wrong. Any specifics?
The deletion of encyclopedic links to nielsenhayden.com by Will Beback.
(I'm assuming you're joining the current discussion in a state of having had the courtesy to read up on the ongoing discussions and being up to speed with everyone else, particularly those you're discussing it with.)
These were links that would have been included in article space but for the fact that they contained material we didn't like.
Err, "containing material we don't like" pretty much covers every link ever deleted from Wikipedia.
... for other than encyclopedic reasons.
- d.