[WikiEN-l] Another "BADSITES" controversy

[jayjg]

On 5/31/07, Matthew Brown <morven at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 5/30/07, jayjg <jayjg99 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > The purpose of BADSITES was, in general, to ensure that any policy
> > like BADSITES would never be passed, and in particular to insure that
> > links to WR would not be removed from Wikipedia.
>
> It seems to me that this argument has only been recently put forward
> and yet the whole controversy about the proposal is much older than
> this.  I'm having trouble reconciling the two.

The first version of BADSITES was started on April 6th. Within a week
I had already privately e-mailed people regarding my suspicions that
it was a strawman. On April 27 there were several public statements to
that effect on this maillist, including one by me. That was over a
month ago.