On 16 Oct 2007 at 23:55:24 -0700, Will Beback
<will.beback.1(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Moore is notable as a filmmaker. He is not notable as
a blogger. His
blog is not encyclopedic. We are only providing a link as a convenience,
and a very minor convenience because it it the first link that comes up
on Google. So we are saving our readers about .5 seconds out of their
lives. We aren't preserving NPOV, we aren't taking a stand against
censorship, we're merely saving some readers a tiny bit of time. I don't
begrudge anyone even half a second. But if the tradeoff we're looking at
is linking to harassment of Wikipedia editors versus the slightest
inconvenience (hopefully temporary) of our readers, then I don't think
we should have a question. For completenes inthe article we can say the
guy has a blog (who doesn't), but unless the blog is notable I don't see
the overriding need to promote "convenience" above "no personal
attacks".
Thus, the "tradeoff" is between a very minor convenience to people
trying to get to the link... versus a very minor interference in the
spread of harrassment that's already out there and well-indexed in
Google. So we're all getting into a big lather over something that
barely actually matters, one way or another... apparently, we're all
motivated by the principle of the thing.
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