[WikiEN-l] BADSITES ArbCom case in progress

[fredbaud at waterwiki.info]

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Daniel R. Tobias [mailto:dan at tobias.name]
>Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2007 07:58 AM
>To: wikien-l at lists.wikimedia.org
>Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] BADSITES ArbCom case in progress
>
>On 20 Sep 2007 at 2:54, "English Wikipedia" <wikien-
>l at lists.wikimedia.org> wrote:
>
>> I guess we should keep a list, somewhere... 
>> 
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist
>> 
>> And maybe one more easily accessible.
>
>The purpose of that list is to prevent spamming, such as the 
>insertion of commercial links where they don't belong. It applies 
>only to a very narrow category of sites that are being actively 
>inserted irrelevantly and have no useful purpose, such as ads for 
>"herbal Viagra". It is a gross abuse of the spam blacklist to 
>include sites that are disliked for political or personal reasons and 
>are not otherwise being spammed.

That is not the basis on which sites are banned. They are banned because they scapegoat Wikipedia editors and administrators. SlimVirgin is not to blame for the imaginary failures of Wikipedia; she, and people like her are responsible for our real success. Scapegoating her gets us absolutely nowhere.

Fred