[WikiEN-l] Is Slate an attack site?

[fredbaud at waterwiki.info]

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From: James Farrar [mailto:james.farrar at gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2007 06:15 PM
To: 'English Wikipedia'
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Is Slate an attack site?

[Incidentally, Fred, your quoting seems to have broken.]

On 12/10/2007, fredbaud at waterwiki.info <fredbaud at waterwiki.info> wrote:
>
> Those who are engaging in this discussion in good faith are concerned with those
> questions. But those who advanced "Bad Sites" were certainly not. They were trying to
> confuse the issue.

Was not the whole point of WP:BADSITES simply to codify in /de jure/
policy the /de facto/ policy that is already implemented, for certain
value of badsite at least?

Yes, my editor does not work right.

I think the point of Bad Sites was to sucker us into taking an absurd position. And it worked. Not with everyone, but with a critical mass sufficient to cause plenty of trouble.

Fred