[WikiEN-l] Attack Site Wars, Episode VII... The Return of the Essjay

[Daniel R. Tobias]

The big wars over linking to so-called "attack sites" have moved to 
yet another venue... and this time, instead of just chilling 
discussion on various and sundry talk and project pages (but being 
pretty much peripheral to anything to do with maintaining an 
encyclopedia, other than diverting energy away from it), they're 
actually having a direct and negative effect on our quality as an 
encyclopedia.  It seems that, regarding the [[Essjay controversy]], 
one of the Wikipedia-related conflicts that is notable enough to have 
a mainspace article, a key part of the history of the unfolding of 
this story took place on one of the "attack sites".  (Our favorite 
enemy Daniel Brandt played a big role in that.)  So, naturally, some 
people wanting a well-referenced historical record wish to include 
the relevant link.  Others are fighting it, making the same tired 
arguments about ArbCom rulings and pseudo-policy.  I was trying to 
mellow out about this whole issue so that I could get back to doing 
something actually relevant to the encyclopedia, but it seems like 
the damn thing keeps intruding no matter what, like the monster in a 
bad horror movie.
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