On 31/05/07, jayjg jayjg99@gmail.com wrote:
On 5/30/07, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
On 31/05/07, jayjg jayjg99@gmail.com wrote:
"Damaging the articles and Wikipedia"?
How would you characterise the removal of all links to nielsenhayden.com from encyclopedia articles? I'd certainly call that an accurate description of the result.
Pardon me for not knowing, but what is that site, and who was removing links to it?
Making Light, the blog of Patrick & Teresa Nielsen Hayden. As discussed earlier...
Will Beback took it on himself to construe one single thread on the site as an attack, declared the entire thing an attack site, and started removing the c.100 links from over the wiki. None of which were to the relevant thread as far as I'm aware; indeed, it would have taken a rather dedicated dig and knowing the offending material was there to find it...
(There are 100 now, anyhow - a fair portion in article space but mainly discussion pages - and, yes, the ones on talk pages were being removed too...)