[WikiEN-l] Spam blacklist and BADSITES

[fredbaud at waterwiki.info]

There has been extensive discussion, although not in a public forum. We have had enough of Judd Bagley and his site.

Fred

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Adrian [mailto:aldebaer at googlemail.com]
>Sent: Sunday, September 9, 2007 03:15 PM
>To: 'English Wikipedia'
>Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Spam blacklist and BADSITES
>
>fredbaud at waterwiki.info schrieb:
>> I think there is a consensus.
>>
>> Fred
>>
>> 
>Although I personally agree to blacklisting that site, looking at the 
>current, related request for arbitration gives the impression that 
>sufficient consensus does not really exist.
>
>At the very least the *timing* of both the Afd for [[Judd Bagley]] and 
>this blacklisting are rather questionable.
>
>
>>> -----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.
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> == Dan ==
>>> 
>In my opinion, this site should have been blacklisted ages ago, and I 
>asked related question a while back.
>
>Adrian
>
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