[WikiEN-l] Another "BADSITES" controversy

[Andrew Gray]

On 28/05/07, Daniel R. Tobias <dan at tobias.name> wrote:
> 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).

...the Making Light thread on Wikipedia was an "attack site?" For
goodness' sake, *I* wrote chunks of it...

> See my essay for more on the issue:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Dtobias/Why_BADSITES_is_bad_policy

BADSITES always was a bad idea that looked seductively good...


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- Andrew Gray
  andrew.gray at dunelm.org.uk