Ankhefenkhons

This is emphatically not an invitation to add unwanted links, but I thought you might like to know that WC is no more. He was banned sockpuppeteer User:Ekajati and an admin removed his latest form. I know it must come as a shock to you that someone so ... dedicated to enforcing the rules would break them like this, but perhaps it does explain why he quoted Agent Smith to you. I also have a question over at Talk:Stèle of Revealing. Dan (talk) 06:25, 21 April 2009 (UTC)

Thanks, Dan. I didn't for one minute think you were making an "invitation to add unwanted links". I'm aware, of course, that User:WillInChina is now banned: given what I know about his activities on the site I run but, bizarrely, cannot name, I'm not in the least bit surprised. I have no desire to promote the-site-that-must-not-be-named: never did have. I just thought visitors might be better served reading the site that is home of the AC Society, and generally considered the definitive, impartial resource, rather than the previously-existing links to rotten.com and the like. I do wonder if I can get the-site-that-must-not-be-named removed from the "spamming blacklist", which sounds outrageous to me, especially given the the sockpuppeteer managed to get it banned as such within the space of ten hours or so. By the way, I'll respond to your question in due course: I'm currently in Cairo studying the stele. Ankhefenkhons (talk) 17:16, 21 April 2009 (UTC)

Hi Ankh, sorry for lurking and butting in, I've been chatting to the owners of other sites who've had similar problems with ekky in some ways. Be interested to 'talk' with you via email or something. Oh that must be so fun being in Cairo- is it warm, or need I ask lol?:) Was it emotionally moving to see the 'real' stele, if you've seen it?

You didn't sign your entry here... You can contact me through "the-site-that-must-not-be-named" or by email: webmaster(AT)lashtal(dot)com (God, I hope I haven't broken any rules in typing that!) I've been here in Cairo many times to study the stele, but it's still an impressive piece. And, er, yes: it is indeed rather warm! Ankhefenkhons (talk) 12:15, 23 April 2009 (UTC)

I know the site of course, though I had to google as I knew it by its other name. It's a shame we can't really link to it as they are an authority on the subject in a way, in as much as I think a lot of Thelemites read the site. But on the other hand, the nature of the site- part a wiki, part a forum, part articles from various people, part news feed, doesn't really lend itself to being linked to from here. It would be great if the bit with the articles was on a separate site of the ACS, which we could then link to as a sort of authority perhaps. But what makes that site well known is not the articles IMHO, it's the community/events listing/news and such like. Sticky Parkin 23:23, 21 April 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for the kind words. It's not about promotion of the site, by the way. And I really do understand that it might not be an appropriate site for linking in terms (registration required for some areas, existence of Forums, and so on). Having said that, it seems odd that a public announcement on the site by, for example, the old Albion OTO or Kenneth Grant's "second-in-command", cannot receive links unless a secondary source quotes them... And, as I've said elsewhere: being a site that fails to meet the standards on Wikipedia relating to quality of sources is one thing - being a site placed on a "spamming blacklist" is entirely another matter, especially when the the whole process of blacklisting was pushed through by an ex-member of the site who is himself now banned indefinitely as a "sock puppeteer". I refer, of course, to User:WillInChina. Ankhefenkhons (talk) 12:10, 23 April 2009 (UTC)