RLS wrote:
Dude. Nobody's arguing against removing a poor source. We're arguing against removing valid, useful sources just because the same site contains harassment of an editor. THAT will cause us to violate NPOV.
Isn't this fairly rare, though?
Let's not get too hung up on edge cases. The bulk of the cases of interest are links to sites that are *literally* harasssment sites, through and through, and not valid references for anything at all.
1. No one is arguing (I hope) that links to Encyclopedia Dramatica are valid sources for articles.
2. No one is arguing (I hope) that a random evil post on a BBC messageboard would make it ok to ban all links to the BBC.
The only real question is where and how to draw the line, but we are actually fortunate in this regard: there are virtually no borderline cases as an empirical matter.
--Jimbo