[WikiEN-l] Harassment sites

[Steve Summit]

David Gerard wrote:
> I've also strongly suggested that the "external links" section of NPA
> be abolished. It's being used as an excuse to damage article content.

If that section were limited to saying something like

	A link to a personal attack on an external website,
	inserted into a Wikipedia page in a context that furthers
	the linked-to attack, is tantamount to an on-wiki
	personal attack and is equally prohibited under this policy.

; if we got rid of all the footnotes and tortured language
suggesting that the section has aspirations of morphing back
into some bastard stepchild of BADSITES, I think it would be fine
and noncontentious, and could and should stay.  (In other words,
"You can't get around NPA by putting the PA on an external site
and linking to it.")