New subject: Spam blacklist and BADSITES

9 Sep 2007

There has been extensive discussion, although not in a public forum. We have had enough of
Judd Bagley and his site.

Fred

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 -----Original Message-----
From: Adrian [mailto:aldebaer@googlemail.com]
Sent: Sunday, September 9, 2007 03:15 PM
To: 'English Wikipedia'
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Spam blacklist and BADSITES

fredbaud(a)waterwiki.info schrieb:
  I think there is a consensus.

 Fred

  Although I personally agree to blacklisting that site, looking at the 
current, related request for arbitration gives the impression that 
sufficient consensus does not really exist.

At the very least the *timing* of both the Afd for [[Judd Bagley]] and 
this blacklisting are rather questionable.

 > -----Original Message-----
> From: Daniel R. Tobias [mailto:dan@tobias.name]
> Sent: Sunday, September 9, 2007 02:21 PM
> To: wikien-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
> Subject: [WikiEN-l] Spam blacklist and BADSITES
>
> User:JzG has just, without any discussion whatsoever, added 
> antisocialmedia.net to the English Wikipedia spam blacklist, although 
> usual practice is to discuss all entries in the talk page beforehand. 
> Since this is a site that has been termed a so-called "attack site" 
> because it reveals information about certain prominent Wikipedians 
> that they want to suppress, adding it to the spam blacklist serves as 
> yet another backdoor to sneak in a spawn of the failed BADSITES 
> policy to censor discussion. The spam blacklist is intended for the 
> specific purpose of stopping spammed links to irrelevant sites, and I 
> know of no consensus for any policy to (ab)use it in other manners.
>
> -- 
> == Dan ==
>  In my opinion, this site should have been blacklisted ages ago, and I 
asked related question a while back.

Adrian

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