[WikiEN-l] Harassment sites

[Will Beback]

joshua.zelinsky at yale.edu wrote:
> Quoting Will Beback <will.beback.1 at gmail.com>:
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>> Claiming the moral high ground is not part of the mission of Wikipedia.
>> If someone else wants to claim it then fine,. let them. The purpose of
>> Wikipedia is to create a free, neutral encyclopedia.
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> Wikipedia exists in the real world, and the project's reputation matters. It
> effects whether people will be likely to help us out or to join or to simply
> read. If we're thought of as an authoritarian, censoring dictatorship, 
> not many
> people will join us. Furthermore, you can't have it both ways. You can't say
> "The purpose of Wikipedia is to create a free, neutral encyclopedia" but only
> have that be relevant when you want it to, and not when you want to remove the
> link. Either NPOV is what we're striving for or it isn't. But we don't only
> strive for NPOV when it is the convenient part of Will Beback's argument.
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People won't want to join if it becomes known that participating in 
Wikipedia can lead to serious harassment at home and work, and that the 
community will do nothing to support its volunteers when that happens.

I dispute the contention that removing poor sources harms NPOV.

Will