On 5/30/07, jayjg jayjg99@gmail.com wrote:
I'm not talking about BADSITES, which was a straw man policy. I'm exploring the claim that it would benefit Wikipedia to link to WR or sites very much like it.
I understand. Let me phrase it this way: RFA. Bob runs for adminship. Bob has good edits, good this, good that. He'd likely be a fine canidate and a fine admin. John alleges, on Bob's RFA, that Bob is a regular contributor to an attack site. Someone asks for proof of this. Here are three questions for both you and Slim, and others:
1. How can John offer proof? We can't link to attack sites. Is John supposed to name the site, and tell people what to search for?
2. Without proof, anyone--given the poisonous nature of BADSITES/attack sites--can poison a canidate and nuke an RFA with impunity. Do you think that being allowed to make allegations without matching evidence is appropriate? Note that RFA is a community matter, and the RFA process needs to be transparent.
3. Bob can refute the possibly empty allegation, but what does it matter? People are drive by !voters. Submit, and gone. If someone gets a poison pill into the RFA early enough, it doesn't matter. You know this to be true. Bob can't even in some interpretations NAME the offending site without directing people right to it. What are your thoughts on this?
Regards, Joe http://www.joeszilagyi.com