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:"Sites should be listed by site owners as how they would like to be described." Why would we do that? Then we would just become a mirror of their "about" page, basically, rather than exercising any independent journalism. [[User:Leucosticte|Leucosticte]] ([[User talk:Leucosticte|talk]]) 02:33, 24 December 2014 (UTC) | :"Sites should be listed by site owners as how they would like to be described." Why would we do that? Then we would just become a mirror of their "about" page, basically, rather than exercising any independent journalism. [[User:Leucosticte|Leucosticte]] ([[User talk:Leucosticte|talk]]) 02:33, 24 December 2014 (UTC) | ||
::WikiIndex is not a site for journalism about and criticism of wikis. It's an *index.* If I want to find criticism of RationalWiki, it's easy. Just google "RationalWiki criticism." I get a bunch of hits. What I expect to see on WikiIndex is a listing, and some information perhaps about site history and status. I definitely don't expect to see the site described and characterized by someone banned there. And I don't think we want to ride herd on activity like this. --[[User:Abd|Abd]] ([[User talk:Abd|talk]]) 02:50, 24 December 2014 (UTC) | ::WikiIndex is not a site for journalism about and criticism of wikis. It's an *index.* If I want to find criticism of RationalWiki, it's easy. Just google "RationalWiki criticism." I get a bunch of hits. What I expect to see on WikiIndex is a listing, and some information perhaps about site history and status. I definitely don't expect to see the site described and characterized by someone banned there. And I don't think we want to ride herd on activity like this. --[[User:Abd|Abd]] ([[User talk:Abd|talk]]) 02:50, 24 December 2014 (UTC) | ||
:::It's a proud tradition in the wikisphere that people get banned from wikis and then go to other wikis to describe the wikis they got banned from. That's what RationalWiki was originally all about. Usually by the time you have enough experience on a wiki to fully discern its flaws, you've either drank deeply enough of its Kool-Aid to become the Establishment there, or you're banned. The people who are still editors on a wiki are usually too busy editing it to criticize it elsewhere. | |||
:::Some pages on WikiIndex are largely attack pages. See, e.g., [[Loopa23]], [[Ben Weiss]], [[Billy Arrowsmith]], etc. [[User:Leucosticte|Leucosticte]] ([[User talk:Leucosticte|talk]]) 02:59, 24 December 2014 (UTC) | |||