On 11/29/07, Guy Chapman aka JzG guy.chapman@spamcop.net wrote:
On Wed, 28 Nov 2007 23:32:07 -0500, "Daniel R. Tobias" dan@tobias.name wrote:
The drama doesn't generally begin until somebody throws a hissy-fit about the links and tries to remove them.
Or when someone reflexively reinserts them shouting ZOMG! BADSITES!
Which nobody is doing.
I've counted the links to WR from time to time. I believe the tally immediately after the original crisis was 183; some time later, during one of the later crises, I believe I came up with a total of 203. Now we are back down to 181. The most recent link I can find is one that was put on my talk page (by someone else) in June, though I have to say that I didn't look very hard.
In the aftermath of DennyColt's original assault, I did go back and revert a bunch of links, including the one's that popped up on my watchlist. I didn't revert all of them because a lot of them seemed to be no particular loss (e.g. a bunch of otherwise unexplained links to the site as a whole on talk pages). Since then I've pretty much foresworn doing so, based upon the threats left on my talk page by various pro-BADSITES admins after I cited material on WR in the course of the early discussions. If anyone else is reverting them, I'm not seeing it.
It appears that the truth is that the only significant reversions of late (meaning after the original flap) have been in cases such as Making Light and Michael Moore and other cases where the consensus has been that the erasures were unwarranted. Most recently the only activity has revolved around WP:NPA and the repeated attempts to reinsert BADSITES language in it; even the attempts to deny that BADSITES was rejected seem to have stopped.
Nobody is saying "ZOMG! BADSITES!" about WR these days, at least not where I can read it.