[WikiEN-l] Another "BADSITES" controversy

[David Gerard]

On 30/05/07, Slim Virgin <slimvirgin at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 5/30/07, Joe Szilagyi <szilagyi at gmail.com> wrote:

> > Why not just list them at BADSITES as a "do not link list"? If the
> > *community* agrees on an entry, hey, cool, don't link it. If not, well, the
> > community has decided, right? Unless very small minorities on-wiki get to
> > decide they know better than everyone else and try to policy wonk or game
> > their way to their ends. But that would be wrong, no? ;)

> The problem with that, Joe, is that some members of the "community"
> who've been particularly vocal on the linking issue are regular
> posters to Wikipedia Review. Mango, for example, posts as Papaya.
> Should the people who keep these sites going be the ones to decide our
> policy on linking to them?


Far better it be decided by people who remove links to
nielsenhayden.com instead on the pretext that it is an "attack site."

That is: the pretext that "attack site" links can be summarily removed
has, in itself, been used by an admin to cause actual damage to the
encyclopedia itself.

That is clear evidence that even having such an idea floating around
is damaging to the encyclopedia, and why the notion that such a
pretext exists must be quashed.


- d.