[WikiEN-l] Spam blacklist and BADSITES

Daniel R. Tobias dan at tobias.name
Sun Sep 9 18:21:11 UTC 2007


User:JzG has just, without any discussion whatsoever, added 
antisocialmedia.net to the English Wikipedia spam blacklist, although 
usual practice is to discuss all entries in the talk page beforehand. 
 Since this is a site that has been termed a so-called "attack site" 
because it reveals information about certain prominent Wikipedians 
that they want to suppress, adding it to the spam blacklist serves as 
yet another backdoor to sneak in a spawn of the failed BADSITES 
policy to censor discussion.  The spam blacklist is intended for the 
specific purpose of stopping spammed links to irrelevant sites, and I 
know of no consensus for any policy to (ab)use it in other manners.

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