[WikiEN-l] Another "BADSITES" controversy

Ken Arromdee arromdee at rahul.net
Wed May 30 20:45:42 UTC 2007


On Wed, 30 May 2007, jayjg wrote:
> O.K., so now we have a third case; in the event that someone has
> posted something horrible on WR (a highly likely possibility), and
> they are also running for something on Wikipedia (like adminship), you
> think it would be beneficial to link to that awful post.
>... 
> "While I can't exactly think of an example" - aye, there's the rub. It
> seems to me that the times in which a link to WR would benefit
> Wikipedia are extremely few at best, and involve very specific
> circumstances - so specific, that they could, in fact, be enumerated
> in very short list.

Here's a fourth case: the Brandt link on Wikipedia Signpost.

Here's a fifth case: links to attack sites in the talk page discussing
the attack sites policy.

The list starts to get large.  Of course, the links I just described were
removed robotically by BADSITES proponents.




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