[WikiEN-l] Spam blacklist and BADSITES

[Daniel R. Tobias]

On 9 Sep 2007 at 20:11:03 +0000, fredbaud at waterwiki.info wrote:

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

You decide things in backroom discussions, like the smoke filled 
rooms of old, and then you get peeved when people claim that there's 
a "cabal"?

I think there's a pretty big "we" around who's had enough of a clique 
getting to decide what things the rest of the peons are allowed to 
see or talk about.

The whole Bagley / Overstock / Weiss / Slim / etc. tangled mess gives 
off the stench of a thousand garbage dumps, and when there's that 
much stink around it's hard to tell for sure who it's coming from... 
but, as Kelly Martin said in her blog a while back, it exerts a 
pernicious influence on a lot of things all over Wikipedia, affecting 
article content decisions everywhere from [[Naked Short Selling]] to 
[[Lutheranism]], and policy decisions from banning policy to BADSITES 
and its progeny.  It may be time for everybody outside that 
proverbial smoke filled room, everybody not entangled in the personal 
connections of the clique, to rise up and take back Wikipedia.

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