[WikiEN-l] Time to reboot wikien-l

[James Farrar]

On 21/11/2007, Guy Chapman aka JzG <guy.chapman at spamcop.net> wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Nov 2007 12:49:27 -0500, jayjg <jayjg99 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >Just because the outcome is the same doesn't mean the reasoning for
> >doing so was the same. Crappy links are deleted for all sorts of
> >reasons, mostly because they're crappy, even if they would also have
> >been deleted under that strawman BADSITES policy.
>
> I can't help feeling this was the main aim of that whole strawman:
> to make it harder to remove crappy links *because they are crappy*.
> The main site active in this is, after all, spectacularly crappy.

No, the aim of BADSITES was to demonstrate how pathetic and unwanted
existing practice was. This was highly successful.