-----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(a)waterwiki.info <fredbaud(a)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