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

[Slim Virgin]

On 7/3/07, Fred Bauder <fredbaud at waterwiki.info> wrote:
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> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Slim Virgin [mailto:slimvirgin at gmail.com]
> >Sent: Monday, July 2, 2007 10:56 PM
> >To: 'English Wikipedia'
> >Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] FredBauder"clarifies"onattackkkkkkkkk site link        policy
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> >On 7/2/07, Fred Bauder <fredbaud at waterwiki.info> wrote:
> >> You got it. BADSITES was nothing but provocation. An attempt to overturn the policy it supposedly supported by generalizing.
> >>
> >It worked on the principle that the best way to get rid of a bad law
> >is to enforce it.
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> I'll never accept linking to personal attacks on Wikipedians. I don't care how futile it is considered to be or how bad such "censorship" is. And it a site makes a regular business of attacking Wikipedians, not criticizing, but attacking, I will oppose linking to the site at all. I can see only good coming out of supporting other editors and only harm coming out of tolerating their humiliation.
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Exactly right.

I want to clarify that when I wrote above that the BADSITES proposal
worked on the principle that the best way to get rid of a bad law is
to enforce it, I meant that this was the mindset of the proposer, not
that I agreed with it. It seems to have been a strawman proposal,
intended only to cause arguments, and it was singularly successful in
that regard.