[WikiEN-l] Another "BADSITES" controversy

[Risker]

I agree with you that it should say what the actual expectation is.  As far
as I can tell, the only unopposed removals of all links to a site were the
removals to ED following the MONGO ruling; there hasn't been another
unopposed attempt since then, so the reality is that admins (and for that
matter, any user) is well justified to remove links to attack content.  And,
as with any other kind of personal attack, admins can block the person
instigating the attack.

Risker


On 5/28/07, Slim Virgin <slimvirgin at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 5/28/07, Risker <risker.wp at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I completely agree with Slim that this was started by someone who had
> some
> > pretty murky ulterior motives; I'll take her word that it was a
> sock.  The
> > question is how to stanch the bad practices that are flowing from it.
> >
> > The most straightforward way would be to mark BADSITES as either
> rejected or
> > historic, and to remove the disputed section in the current
> policy.  (That
> > takes care of the messy attempt made by DennyColt.)  As far as I can
> tell,
> > there was absolutely no objection to the idea of including a statement
> in
> > the current NPA policy supporting the removal of any links where the
> content
> > of the link met the definition of a personal attack, regardless of the
> > origin of the content.
>
> The policy should describe what admins actually do. Most admins that
> I'm aware of remove these links when they see them, not in a
> systematic way, but if they happen to find one. There are very few
> situations where they're added legitimately.
>
> The way to defeat the troll is probably to stop talking about the
> issue, because that's what he wanted. We have an ArbCom ruling, and we
> have admins who can implement it sensibly. If anyone sees a silly
> implementation of it, please e-mail that admin and put them straight.
> End of story.
>
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