Since June 2006, a top administrator at Wikipedia has kept six sites by Public Information Research on the Wikimedia Foundation's spam blacklist without justification, and has ignored requests by other editors to explain himself. If a domain is on this blacklist, any editor who tries to link to any page on that site has his edit aborted. These six sites are all nonprofit and tax-exempt, and none has ever carried any ads. How do they qualify as spam? Are other system administrators importing this list on the assumption that all listed sites are spammers?
www.namebase.org — Online since 1995, this historical research site has powerful searching of its 311,000 citations. Most of the material cited has never been digitized, because it predates the Internet. It took 24 years to develop this database.
www.google-watch.org — This is the first site that criticized Google. It started in August 2002, at a time when everyone thought that Google was God's gift to humankind.
www.scroogle.org — A Google search proxy that protects the privacy of those who do Google searches. In January 2007, it was scraping Google more than 50,000 times a day.
www.yahoo-watch.org — A Yahoo search proxy.
www.cia-on-campus.org — Offers full-text documents and articles on the issue of the CIA on U.S. campuses. This was an issue in the late 1960s, in 1977, and again in 1987, all of which predate the web. Without this site, this material would be lost to history.
www.wikipedia-watch.org
Here is Raul654, Wikipedia administrator, bureaucrat, and arbitrator, who sits at the right hand of Jimbo. This is the gentleman who doesn't like the above sites, and is sure that they should not be linked in a quality information resource such as Wikipedia. His name is Mark A. Pellegrini, born 1982-06-19. He is an engineering grad student at the University of Delaware, USA.