Talk:Blacklist

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I deleted the following: Another, cruder synonym for blacklisting is blackballing (which implies that the one blacklisted has been metaphorically "castrated" by the blacklist).

Blackballing has nothing to do with castration, it has to do with voters placing white or black balls into an urn as to whether a person should be voted in to (or out of) an organization. -- Zoe
I deleted the whole paragraph about blackballing. Blackballing is a sanction by an individual against another individual and has nothing to do with lists, black or otherwise, nor with sanctions of groups (such as communists) or by groups (such as the motion picture industry). Also, I believe I’m right in saying that one can only be blackballed from a club, which is nowhere near as severe as being deprived of one’s livelihood by a blacklist. Paul Magnussen 18:10, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] Confusing statement on government internet blacklists

The following statement needs to be rewritten to make it more clear and to better conform to NPOV:

The assertion that the government or certain corporations are interpreting the term mail client to encompass disenfranchised human senders of messages on the Internet, and have automated black- or greylisting techniques to deny Internet access to such persons, is a sheer fabrication.

What is the claim being made? Is their evidence presented to support this claim? If not we can mention this but we should labeling it a "sheer fabrication" unless intentional deceit can be supported. --Cab88 19:59, 9 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Duplicate paragraph

I deleted this paragrah from the Computing section as it's a duplicate from the previous section

Many progressive technologists are now using the term "blocklists" instead of "blacklists" since "blacklist" can be offensive to African Americans. The British Sociological Association's website explains: "The term has taken on more political connotations with the rise of black activism in the USA since the 1960s and now its usage implies solidarity against racism. The idea of 'black' has thus been reclaimed as a source of pride and identity. To accept this means that we should be sensitive to the many negative connotations relating to the word 'black' in the English language (black leg, black list etc.)."

Kev (talk) 10:17, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Principles. Appeals. Unfair or false blacklisting.

Around the Internet forums, listserv forums contributors, participants can unfairly get banned or blocked. What principles are there that can be invoked for reconsideration for an unfair ban or block? Or how can a permanent ban or block be reduced to a term that would allow the contributor, participant to return?

[edit] GladList/Sadlist

Is it still possible to post links to pages that don't yet exist on this wiki around here?

I seem to recall that such was acceptable, and that future readers/editors would then be entrusted to either create or not create the new page, or perhaps even to remove the brackets that made the word into a link (and therefore effectively either a request for a page or a suggestion that such a page would be a worthywhile/defendable page to create).

But I'm not quite sure if linking to pages that aren't yet in existence (a la a wiki) is still permitted on this wiki (which would be fine and could even be appropriate especially in realms involving promulgating Wikipedia via other channels).

Which is to say, what sort of litmus test ought I apply to the decision to somehow add mention of the alternate incarnation of BlackList/Whitelist (GladList/Sadlist) to this article?

And, is one even permitted to link to articles that don't yet exist on Wikipedia on discussion pages?

-;)Ozzyslovechild 03:39, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Medical Context

This section was probably written with someone with an axe to grind. It is irresponsible to make such serious and defamatory generalizations about the medical community without a single citation to back it up (except for a quote from George Bernard Shaw). This section belongs in a "conspiracy theories" Wiki. I added appropriate [citation needed] to the article.

I did not write this, but will be glad to help clean this up with citations as soon as I can learn how. Medical blacklisting is a fact, long entrenched in physician culture, and it is definitely not a conspiracy theory. Heartfocus 06:49, 18 January 2007 (UTC)