[WikiEN-l] What BADSITES boils down to

[Andrew Gray]

On 31/05/07, jayjg <jayjg99 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 5/30/07, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 31/05/07, jayjg <jayjg99 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > "Damaging the articles and Wikipedia"?
> >
> >
> > How would you characterise the removal of all links to
> > nielsenhayden.com from encyclopedia articles? I'd certainly call that
> > an accurate description of the result.
>
> Pardon me for not knowing, but what is that site, and who was removing
> links to it?

Making Light, the blog of Patrick & Teresa Nielsen Hayden. As
discussed earlier...

Will Beback took it on himself to construe one single thread on the
site as an attack, declared the entire thing an attack site, and
started removing the c.100 links from over the wiki. None of which
were to the relevant thread as far as I'm aware; indeed, it would have
taken a rather dedicated dig and knowing the offending material was
there to find it...

(There are 100 now, anyhow - a fair portion in article space but
mainly discussion pages - and, yes, the ones on talk pages were being
removed too...)

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