Talk:Samizdata

&mdash; J I P  | Talk 12:04, 24 November 2005 (UTC)

The phrase Moonbat was NOT coined on this website. Wikipedia should not be used to improve a blogger's Page Rank! User:PerrydAviland
 * See link . Wikipedia should not be used as an outlet for petty grudges against people you don't like. -- JJay 16:00, 27 May 2006 (UTC)
 * I can barely have a grudge about a person I know nothing about. I merely do not wish to see urban myths propogated here for the sake of a blogger's notoriety. Goldberg definitely used the phrase first, that is a fact. User:PerrydAviland
 * No it is not a fact. There are sources that attribute the word to Samizdata, such as the link above. Please provide a link that attributes it to Goldberg. -- JJay 16:25, 27 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Goldberg used the word moonbat it in an article in 1999. The link is (probably) on the moonbat page. If that is not evidence enough, we are truly in the realms of finding the 'one true scotsman'. User:PerrydAviland

This blog no longer claims to be libertarian, thus is no longer a libertarian weblog. 66.174.79.227 01:57, 19 August 2006 (UTC)
 * It never was a libertarian weblog. The frequent appearance of automatic-loon-marker terms like "fisking", "idiotarian" and "Islamofascism" is a big clue.  So are the site's having been designed by "The Dissident Frogman", frequent back and forth links to sites of Instapundit and Little Green Footballs ilk, and sentiments like a "Support Denmark" logo complete with flag of that particular Eurosocialist welfare state.  It is one of those "warblogger" hangouts that has more in common with Heinlein's fascist romp Starship Troopers and Virginia Postrel's strange mashup of fringe-techno-futurist optimism and neoconservatism, than with anything found in Murray Rothbard, Ayn Rand, Karl Hess, Lysander Spooner or even L. Neil Smith.  Libertarian = anti-state = anti-war and anti-militarist, and there is just no way around this fact.  They not only aren't a libertarian blog now, they never were.  Antiwar.com is a libertarian weblog.  LewRockwell.com is a libertarian weblog.  71.176.155.54 (talk) 10:34, 16 March 2010 (UTC)

Notability
I can't see any reason for the notability of the subject. I've removed the uncited (and jokily unnotable) assertion that

I will be taking this to WP:AFD unless anyone comes out of the woodwork.

JASpencer 20:27, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
 * The referenced Guardian article gives its daily hits at +15000 and calls it one of the largest of the country, plus "arguably the grandfather of political blogs" there, and Great Britain's none too small. Samizdata is covered thoroughly. That help any? --Kizor 20:25, 9 January 2007 (UTC)


 * No, it doesn't. 15,000 hits is not a criteria for inclusion in WP:WEB and secondly WP:WEB talks about multiple mentions in independent sources and the Guardian is just one.  That said I'm more relaxed about this than before. JASpencer 23:30, 10 January 2007 (UTC)
 * I personally have major reservations about WP:WEB. It's explicitly descriptive, not perscriptive, meaning that its use must be tempered with common sense and the specific circumstances. --Kizor 18:04, 11 January 2007 (UTC)