[WikiEN-l] A BADSITES RfA piling-on

[Phil Sandifer]

On May 28, 2007, at 5:34 PM, Slim Virgin wrote:

> On 5/28/07, Blu Aardvark <jeffrey.latham at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Admins have no obligation to protect other editors.
>
> That is where we fundamentally disagree. Admins are there to protect
> the encyclopedia and the people who create it. We can't offer much
> protection, it's true, but we *can* remove links to websites set up
> for the sole purpose of making those people feel miserable.

And Gracenotes, in my reading of his RFA, does not disagree with  
this. But in the face of such blinding idiocy as Will Beback's  
removing citations to reliable sources, is it any wonder that he's a  
little suspicious of the merits of a bright line distinction here?

-Phil