[WikiEN-l] Attack site conflict gets weirder

[Daniel R. Tobias]

More stuff has happened in the fight over linking to Brandt's site in 
a Wikipedia Signpost article on him.  Apparently, taking out that 
link really pissed Brandt off.  (OK... sometimes bad policy decisions 
can have good effects.)  Writing on one of those infamous Attack 
Sites, Brandt threatened to bring back his Hive Mind 2 page (the one 
with admins, not regular editors) unless Wikipedia (or whoever has 
final authority over Signpost) reinstates the link right away.  (Bad 
move on Brandt's part... if he kept his mouth shut, there'd be plenty 
of pro-free-speech, anti-silly-link-policy editors like me around to 
fight for putting back the link as relevant and reasonable for that 
article... but some of us aren't nearly so eager to fight for giving 
in to a Brandt Ultimatum.)

And, following this, somebody wrote about it on [[WP:AN/I]], giving a 
link to Brandt's comments on the other site (reasonable... how is 
anybody supposed to know what he said, and in what context, 
otherwise?), and some of the succeeding comments criticized this 
insertion of yet another Link To An Attack Site (though, as of now, 
nobody has actually removed the link).

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