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

[Kirill Lokshin]

On 7/3/07, The Mangoe <the.mangoe at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 7/3/07, Kirill Lokshin <kirill.lokshin at gmail.com> wrote:
> > (The occasional convenience of having such links in dispute resolution
> > proceedings are one of the reasons I argued against the total ban
> > proposed by BADSITES, incidentally; but such proceedings aren't
> > covered by sourcing policy in any case.)
>
> But they have been always considered covered by the BADSITES/MONGO
> psuedo-policy, which is why the sourcing discussion is and is not a
> red herring. It is a red herring in that nobody has ever talked aobut
> this in terms of article space; it is not a red herring because
> charges about the content of sites need citation.

BADSITES isn't policy, or pseudo-policy, or guideline, or even a good
idea.  MONGO is kind-of-pseudo-policy, but even the arbs that actually
voted on it seem to have different interpretations of how far it's
really meant to go. ;-)

More to the point, though: I was under the impression this particular
episode had started because someone wanted to put a link to WR in an
*article*, no?

Kirill