[WikiEN-l] BADSITES ArbCom case in progress

[fredbaud at waterwiki.info]

Let's suppose the information being put forth is about David Goodman. Let's also suppose it is false, but not obviously so. Now how do you like it?

Fred

>-----Original Message-----
>From: David Goodman [mailto:dgoodmanny at gmail.com]
>Sent: Friday, September 21, 2007 12:12 AM
>To: 'English Wikipedia'
>Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] BADSITES ArbCom case in progress
>
>I am glad to have such a clear statement, to disagree with. The
>purpose of an honest encyclopedia is to take the truth from wherever
>it appears, and to refer accurately even to the works of those who
>work against the truth.
>
>If they are malicious, their maliciousness will be apparent when
>exposed. That's the basic principle of all respectable journalism. to
>hide the views of one's opponents--even one's bad faith opponents--is
>censorship. I will defend WP by all intellectually honest means, but
>hiding the views of those who attack it is not such. It's not even
>productive--that we think their views dangerous enough to unlink adds
>to their credibility.
>
>The reason NPOV is the most basic of principles is that without it, no
>source of information can be trusted, or is worth even producing.
>Fred, your well-intentioned policies will have the unintended end of
>destroying our credibility.
>
>
>On 9/21/07, fredbaud at waterwiki.info <fredbaud at waterwiki.info> wrote:
>>
>>
>> >-----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
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