On Nov 21, 2007 1:31 PM, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
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.
That old chestnut? It's the other strawman used as the rallying cry. Will realized he made an error, and apologized profusely. The whole issue was over long ago, but anti-BADSITES people bring it up again and again and again, as that one incident has been extremely useful.
People misapply *real* policy every day, we don't then say OMG BAD POLICY, IT MUST GO!!!!!
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.
One man's encyclopedic reasons...