[WikiEN-l] Another "BADSITES" controversy
Daniel R. Tobias
dan at tobias.name
Mon May 28 12:15:08 UTC 2007
The latest skirmish in the never-ending civil war over linking to so-
called "attack sites" is the one where [[User:Will Beback]] has taken
onto himself to purge Wikipedia of all links to the site of notable
science fiction editor [[Teresa Nielsen Hayden]], even though they
are used as reliable sources for quite a number of diverse things,
because in her blog she attacked Beback (she seems to have some
issues with Wikipedia in general).
This has in turn spurred a renewed edit-war over whether the anti-
attack-site section should even be in the WP:NPA page, and the page
is now under protection again as a result.
See my essay for more on the issue:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Dtobias/Why_BADSITES_is_bad_policy
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