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

[The Cunctator]

No, it definitely rises to the level of other stuff that gets Wikipedia
pages. A lot of news coverage, genuine historical significance, etc.

On 6/25/07, Phil Sandifer <Snowspinner at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Personally, I'd delete [[Essjay controversy]] - we only think it's
> notable because it's a Wikipedia-related topic. Any other website and
> we wouldn't have it.
>
> -Phil
>
> On Jun 24, 2007, at 7:24 PM, Daniel R. Tobias wrote:
>
> > 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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