[WikiEN-l] Is Slate an attack site?

[Wily D]

Fred

This is, of course, an open issue, with a non-trivial contingent of
editors agitating for this action by Slate to result in a permanent
and complete expunging of every link from Wikipedia to Slate.com

To boot, ArbCom is now making things far less clear than they were
before.  You yourself have made numerous comments on
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/Attack_sites/Proposed_decision#Malicious_sites
this page which are going to be taken as saying "Ban everyone who
links to Slate.com", whether that's what you meant to say or not.
Furthermore, you cannot reasonably expect everyone to keep track of
all the pointless drama, some of us are here to write an
encyclopaedia.  A regular editor may well be legitimately concerned
that linking to Slate will get them banned - and *even if* this
particular question was asked disingenuously, somebody else is going
to be wondering the same thing in all honesty.  There's no need to
throw about counter-accusations and speculations.  The first response
"No - this does not qualify Slate.com as an attack site" is all that
needs to be said on this issue.

Cheers
WilyD

On 10/11/07, fredbaud at waterwiki.info <fredbaud at waterwiki.info> wrote:
> The message called for removing all links to Slate, an inappropriate action. It's a clever piece of political agitation, but is decidedly not helpful.
>
> Fred
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: James Farrar [mailto:james.farrar at gmail.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2007 09:23 PM
> To: 'English Wikipedia'
> Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Is Slate an attack site?
>
> On 11/10/2007, fredbaud at waterwiki.info <fredbaud at waterwiki.info> wrote:
> > However, John, including this link on our mailing list, or linking to it from within Wikipedia
> > is quite mischievous. Do you believe that pile of crap? Or feel drawing attention to it
> > somehow aids Wikipedia?
>
> Surely it brings to the attention of those who delete attack site
> links that they have another one to look out for?
>
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