On 17/10/2007, Thatcher131 Wikipedia <thatcher131(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 10/17/07, John Lee <johnleemk(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hyperlinking a personal attack is tantamount to a
personal attack now? I
> guess we should lock up everyone who gathers evidence of personal attacks
> for evidence pages, since they've been linking to these by the shitload.
I know Halloween is right around the corner, but we
really don't need
any straw men is this discussion. Let's stick to discussion of links
to external sites that harass, expose and intimidate editors.
The reality of this situation is that many "straw man" notions have in
fact come true. There appears to be no limit to the reach of the
undead BADSITES notion.
(Although you might be interested to know that the
user page policy
does now prohibt "Material that can be construed as attacking other
editors, including the recording of perceived flaws. An exception is
made for evidence compiled within a reasonable time frame to prepare
for a dispute resolution process." In other words, evidence is ok as
long as you actually intend to file a case, but nursing grudges is
verboten, because it can indeed constitute harassment of other
editors.)
See, that's something like sensible.
- d.