[WikiEN-l] Spam blacklist and BADSITES

[fredbaud at waterwiki.info]

I think there is a consensus.

Fred

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Daniel R. Tobias [mailto:dan at tobias.name]
>Sent: Sunday, September 9, 2007 02:21 PM
>To: wikien-l at lists.wikimedia.org
>Subject: [WikiEN-l] Spam blacklist and BADSITES
>
>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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