Steve Summit just had to cough out the following stream of bytes from
the specified email client, on 4/7/2007 1:46 PM
Why?
As the original poster has said:
We should "know thine enemy"; we
shouldn't act like a mind-control
cult trying to stop its members from finding out about critics and
what they have to say, but we should encourage our editors to read
such criticism -- and refute it on the many occasions where it's
wrongheaded. But occasionally the critics say something right, too.
Anyway, when they're threatening to sue Wikipedia and its editors,
shouldn't we make ourselves aware of this? Banning all links to the
site would prevent that too.
Obviously the site has violated NPA, and even on the
NPA policy page, it
says that :
Posting a link to an external source that fits the
commonly accepted
threshold for a personal attack, in a manner that incorporates the
substance of that attack into Wikipedia discussion, including the
suggestion that such a link applies to another editor, or that another
editor needs to visit the external source containing the substance of
the attack.
This site is an external source of personal attacks. Even planning to
sue us and our fellow Wiki*edians is a personal attack.
--
Charli (Vishwin60)
I'm pleased that the Ministry of Culture is protecting the morals of the
expat bankers and their girlfriends that are going to be coming. ~Mick
Jagger