-----Original Message----- From: James Farrar [mailto:james.farrar@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@waterwiki.info fredbaud@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