[WikiEN-l] Time to reboot wikien-l

[joshua.zelinsky at yale.edu]

Quoting Guy Chapman aka JzG <guy.chapman at spamcop.net>:

> On Wed, 21 Nov 2007 10:09:41 -0500, jayjg <jayjg99 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> BADSITES has proven to be an extremely convenient way of distracting
>> attention from the real issues regarding offsite harassment and
>> non-encyclopedic links; I suspect it has worked even better than its
>> author ever dreamed it would.
>
> Yes, I think you are right.  We had an IP turn up out of the blue
> yesterday and mark some current proposals as "rejected" due to
> BADSITES, including one that was specifically motivated by the
> rejection of BADSITES and seeks to do what the last ArbCom
> suggested, namely write a workable policy.
>
> Of course, it is incredibly important to WR that they retain the
> ability to add links.  Not because they want to, but because it
> keeps the site in the public mind.  Without the constant harping it
> would have been forgotten by now as just another festival of stupid.

As far as I can tell, removing WR links has generally created more drama than
allowing them to stay. Removing of harassment is fine, but banning all 
WR links
is not a good idea. It simply gives them more attention.