[WikiEN-l] Spam blacklist and BADSITES

[Armed Blowfish]

On 10/09/2007, Ray Saintonge <saintonge at telus.net> wrote:
> I never heard of Bagley until this
> thread started.  Now I read comments
> from someone, who has also proven
> the unreliability of his judgement on
> something as trivial as trivia, libeling
> a living person by calling him
> an asshole and dangerous, and
> expecting us to trust these comments.

If these hurtful/rude/attack/libelous/whatever
comments are on Wikimedia servers, I
suggest they be excised. (Disclaimer: I have
not read them personally, so I can't judge
what they are.)

> I believe that even those accused
> of the most heinous crimes have a
> right to a defence, and even if they
> would not want to appear here
> personally there need to be standards
> in the way that we deal with such
> claims.
>
> If there is not any sort of cabal or
> conspiracy, why bring it up?  Why
> make up these vicious stories pretending
> that others are seeing them?
> What you seem to forget is that wikis
> are about communities getting
> together to find a mutually acceptable
> position; it's not about a
> handful of people who decide what is
> good for others, or how others
> should be protected.  For many of us
> that is what was wrong with the old
> way of doing things.
>
> Ec

When it comes to the safety / health /
feelings of individual human beings,
the encyclopaedia is not involved -
what matters are the individuals.
Consensus is all well and good for
talking about encyclopaedia articles,
but that doesn't give the Wikipaedia
community the right to start destroying
real people's lives.