[WikiEN-l] BADSITES ArbCom case in progress

[fredbaud at waterwiki.info]

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Daniel R. Tobias [mailto:dan at tobias.name]
>Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2007 11:08 PM
>To: wikien-l at lists.wikimedia.org
>Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] BADSITES ArbCom case in progress
>
>On 20 Sep 2007 at 21:33:58 +0000, fredbaud at waterwiki.info wrote:
>[long line rewrapped]
>> We do not have an exception to [[Wikipedia:No personal attacks]]
>> which permits linking to a personal attack on an external web
>> site. 
>
>Which is relevant if you buy into the concept that "everything not 
>explicitly permitted is prohibited."
>
>Anyway, the questions at issue tend to be of the form "Does the above 
>apply in any way to a link, for a purpose unrelated to any attack, to 
>a site that happens to also have attacks in it?"

Depends on the site. If the site is used in a campaign of harassment, maliciously, yes.

Fred