On 10/17/07, joshua.zelinsky(a)yale.edu
<joshua.zelinsky(a)yale.edu> wrote:
<charles.r.matthews(a)ntlworld.com> wrote:
15.1) Wikipedia should not link to websites set up for the purpose of or
substantially devoted to harassing its volunteers. Harassment in this
context
refers to cyber-stalking, offline stalking,
outing people without their
consent, humiliating them sexually, or threatening them with physical
violence.
I'm very worried that this proposal doesn't make any distinction
between article
space and non-article space.
I'm very worried that this means I can't link to an attack site to make fun
of it, as I did with Brandft's hive mind. (I was listed on it, so I thought
it'd make a good userbox joke - gosh, I feel so old.) This makes no
distinction between intent and actual action - [[mens rea]] for the legal
nerds out there. In real life, the law sometimes cannot draw a good
distinction between intent and the act itself, but in Wikipedia, we usually
can. We should be banning the usage of links for the express purpose of
harassing or outing editors; not banning links which *might* conceivably be
used in a context to harass editors simply because of their content.
I'm inclined to agree. I forgot also that we had fun little threads
occasionally
when people got stuck on Hivemind. JzG announced his placement on Hivemind.
However, an occasional humorous thread being curtailed seems like a
minor price
to pay.