The message called for removing all links to Slate, an inappropriate action. It's a clever piece of political agitation, but is decidedly not helpful.
Fred
-----Original Message----- From: James Farrar [mailto:james.farrar@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2007 09:23 PM To: 'English Wikipedia' Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Is Slate an attack site?
On 11/10/2007, fredbaud@waterwiki.info fredbaud@waterwiki.info wrote:
However, John, including this link on our mailing list, or linking to it from within Wikipedia is quite mischievous. Do you believe that pile of crap? Or feel drawing attention to it somehow aids Wikipedia?
Surely it brings to the attention of those who delete attack site links that they have another one to look out for?
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Fred
This is, of course, an open issue, with a non-trivial contingent of editors agitating for this action by Slate to result in a permanent and complete expunging of every link from Wikipedia to Slate.com
To boot, ArbCom is now making things far less clear than they were before. You yourself have made numerous comments on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/Attack_sites... this page which are going to be taken as saying "Ban everyone who links to Slate.com", whether that's what you meant to say or not. Furthermore, you cannot reasonably expect everyone to keep track of all the pointless drama, some of us are here to write an encyclopaedia. A regular editor may well be legitimately concerned that linking to Slate will get them banned - and *even if* this particular question was asked disingenuously, somebody else is going to be wondering the same thing in all honesty. There's no need to throw about counter-accusations and speculations. The first response "No - this does not qualify Slate.com as an attack site" is all that needs to be said on this issue.
Cheers WilyD
On 10/11/07, fredbaud@waterwiki.info fredbaud@waterwiki.info wrote:
The message called for removing all links to Slate, an inappropriate action. It's a clever piece of political agitation, but is decidedly not helpful.
Fred
-----Original Message----- From: James Farrar [mailto:james.farrar@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2007 09:23 PM To: 'English Wikipedia' Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Is Slate an attack site?
On 11/10/2007, fredbaud@waterwiki.info fredbaud@waterwiki.info wrote:
However, John, including this link on our mailing list, or linking to it from within Wikipedia is quite mischievous. Do you believe that pile of crap? Or feel drawing attention to it somehow aids Wikipedia?
Surely it brings to the attention of those who delete attack site links that they have another one to look out for?
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fredbaud@waterwiki.info wrote:
The message called for removing all links to Slate, an inappropriate action. It's a clever piece of political agitation, but is decidedly not helpful.
Fred, what message are you referring to here? John's original post didn't call for that. Did someone else do so?
Thanks,
William