On Wed, 21 Nov 2007 12:49:27 -0500, jayjg
<jayjg99(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Just because the outcome is the same doesn't
mean the reasoning for
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.
I can't help feeling this was the main aim of that whole strawman:
to make it harder to remove crappy links *because they are crappy*.
The main site active in this is, after all, spectacularly crappy.
A big issue here is what do you mean by crappy? We have a tremendous problem
with spam and other genuine crap. But by crappy do we mean links that
otherwise
meet WP:EL and would be included but for the fact that the people who
write them
are assholes who attack Wikipedians? Then we have a problem.