[WikiEN-l] FredBauder"clarifies"onattackkkkk site link policy

[David Gerard]

On 02/07/07, Slim Virgin <slimvirgin at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 7/2/07, James Farrar <james.farrar at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 02/07/07, jayjg <jayjg99 at gmail.com> wrote:

> > > Yes, it was appropriate. The MONGO case was quite clear when we voted
> > > on it, and the vote was unanimous:
> > > "A website that engages in the practice of publishing private
> > > information concerning the identities of Wikipedia participants will
> > > be regarded as an attack site whose pages should not be linked to from
> > > Wikipedia pages under any circumstances."

> > OK, so we not cannot link to the New York Times, after its recent
> > magazine article.

> I wish people would stop these hyperbolic slippery slopes.


Sorry, what he *meant* to say was that we can no longer link to Making Light.

That's a site that was blocked after sliding all the way down the
"slippery slope", in the best of faith.

BADSITES is an odious, stupid and damaging policy. Please stop pushing it.


- d.