On 4/25/07, Daniel R. Tobias dan@tobias.name wrote:
This week, Wikipedia Signpost has an article about the latest developments in the Daniel Brandt flap: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2007-04- 23/Brandt_unblock
The original version, by Michael Snow, included a link to Brandt's Wikipedia Watch site, which was relevant to the article because it was in fact being discussed there.
Michaelas10 then removed the link, using "Attack site" as his edit summary.
The problem with the proposal is that people want to impose strict liability.
If someone posts personal attacks off-wiki, and then links to them in order to make the personal attacks on-wiki, then that's just as bad as posting them on-wiki in the first place and should be treated similarly. I haven't seen anyone disagreeing with this.
But the proposal aims to make any link, to any part of any site that carries bad material somewhere on it, impossible. That's remarkably shortsighted.