On Wed, 04 Jul 2007 22:24:26 -0500, Rich Holton richholton@gmail.com wrote:
The point under discussion is whether a blanket ban of certain sites is a good step to take.
It seems to me that some people want to include links to WR on ideological grounds, and some people want to exclude them on ideological grounds.
Me, I take a more practical view. WR has no known editorial process, and is a festering den of banned vanity spammers and other malcontents. What they say about Wikipedia has no discernable authority, it is a textbook case of an unreliable source.
If Brandt, say, wants to say something about what he thinks of Wikipedia, and wants to say it on his own site under his name, that may be different, but pseudonymous rants by people we kicked off Wikipedia, generally for excellent reasons, do not strike me as useful to the project in any way. Especially since it's essentially a forum, so crap does not get corrected, it just gets commented on.
Guy (JzG)