[WikiEN-l] Harassment sites

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-----Original Message-----
From: Will Beback [mailto:will.beback.1 at gmail.com]
Sent: Sunday, October 14, 2007 03:04 AM
To: 'English Wikipedia'
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Harassment sites

David Gerard wrote:
> This would still see michaelmoore.com removed from [[Michael Moore]],
> so fails the giggle test.
>
>   
The purpose of Wikipedia is to create articles full of content, not full 
of external links. I'd argue that the article on Michael Moore does not 
require a link to his website, nor does any article require having any 
external link. External links are a convenience to readers, but aren't 
part of the goal of the encyclopedia.
W.

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A prominent person, popular with most of our users, can harass an editor who takes a political position most of don't like, on his website. If we do anything about it, other than ask him to quit, we would make ourselves a laughing stock.

Policies are like spiderwebs; they catch flies. Hawks fly through. (Not an original thought, but based on the Spanish proverb "Laws, like the spider's webs, catch the flies and let the hawk go free.")

Fred