Within a week, DennyColt disappeared, after having escalated his language with respect to BADSITES to calling Wikipedia Review a hate site, becoming verbally aggressive on a Request for Clarification from Arbcom, and being named in an RfC. By that stage, a lot of people were wondering about him. But the BADSITES proposal closely parallels earlier writings by other editors, and interestingly a much-watered-down kernel of the proposal in BADSITES is nearing consensus on the WP:NPA policy.
Risker
On 5/31/07, jayjg jayjg99@gmail.com wrote:
On 5/31/07, Matthew Brown morven@gmail.com wrote:
On 5/30/07, jayjg jayjg99@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.
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