[WikiEN-l] Time to reboot wikien-l

[James Farrar]

On 21/11/2007, joshua.zelinsky at yale.edu <joshua.zelinsky at yale.edu> wrote:
> Quoting jayjg <jayjg99 at gmail.com>:
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> > 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.
>
> Jayjg this would be a nice story except for a few problems: 1) A number of
> editors favored BADSITES 2) The removal of many of the problematic links we've
> seen in the last few months (such as Making Lights and Robert Black's blog)
> we're precisely what BADSITES was calling for.

Indeed. It seemed to me that BADSITES was an attempt to codify
then-current practice [*] in order to demonstrate how silly it was.
That the community rejected it tells its own story.

[*] I hope it's not current practice any more -- but only time will
tell on this.