[WikiEN-l] Spam blacklist and BADSITES

[Daniel R. Tobias]

On 12 Sep 2007 at 23:48:27 +0100, "David Gerard" <dgerard at gmail.com> 
wrote:

> I think (b) is the major factor. At least ED has a sense of humour, if
> a sociopathic one.

I fear that Wikipedia is currently losing its own sense of humo(u)r.  
The deletion (and deletion again, and deletion yet again... I didn't 
bother to check whether it's deleted or undeleted this very instant) 
of BJAODN is one instance, and currently the link-finding game 
[[Wikipedia:Wikington Crescent]] is being considered for deletion.  
Somebody recently called the meta page about friends of gays not 
being allowed to edit "in bad taste" (I think on one of the admin 
noticeboards, or village pump, or something... I lost track of 
exactly where)... is that the next thing to be put up for deletion?  
Slowly, all the whimsical stuff that lets us not take our site quite 
so seriously is going away.  Both the supporters/defenders of the 
Wiki Way, and the anti-Wikipedia critics on those infamous attack 
sites are deathly serious about everything and annoyed that anybody 
would treat anything as a joke.  Everybody needs to lighten up.


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