On 5/31/07, Slim Virgin slimvirgin@gmail.com wrote:
On 5/30/07, Joe Szilagyi szilagyi@gmail.com wrote:
Why not just list them at BADSITES as a "do not link list"? If the *community* agrees on an entry, hey, cool, don't link it. If not, well,
the
community has decided, right? Unless very small minorities on-wiki get
to
decide they know better than everyone else and try to policy wonk or
game
their way to their ends. But that would be wrong, no? ;)
The problem with that, Joe, is that some members of the "community" who've been particularly vocal on the linking issue are regular posters to Wikipedia Review. Mango, for example, posts as Papaya. Should the people who keep these sites going be the ones to decide our policy on linking to them?
As long as they aren't close to a majority of Wikipedians, why the bother? If they try to overrun our policies and processes, they won't get very far - and if the rest of the community acquiesces to what they want, it's up to you to change the rest of the community's mind.
Johnleemk