Slim Virgin wrote:
On 5/28/07, Blu Aardvark jeffrey.latham@gmail.com wrote:
Admins have no obligation to protect other editors.
That is where we fundamentally disagree. Admins are there to protect the encyclopedia and the people who create it. We can't offer much protection, it's true, but we *can* remove links to websites set up for the sole purpose of making those people feel miserable.
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Well, not exactly. Admins are there to protect the encyclopedia. Protecting the people who create it doesn't come out of any admin responsibility, but rather out of basic human dignity. Yes, admins should, whenever possible, remove links to such websites. (Except that "such websites" don't really exist. They may have /pages/ that serve to harass Wikipedia editors, but there are no sites explicitly dedicated to doing so.) However, if they fail to do so, what's the problem? There are, as I said, over 700 other admins who can do the job for them. I mean, heck, you've got your own personal army dedicated to that cause.