-----Original Message----- From: wikien-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:wikien-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Bryan Derksen Sent: Saturday, April 07, 2007 1:13 PM To: English Wikipedia Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Suppression of links to 'attack sites'?
This "violation" is highly dependant on the context in which it's made. You
can't just find one instance where a link to a web site is
used as a personal attack and then declare _all_ links to anything on the
entire site, used _anywhere_ in Wikipedia, to be a personal
attack. I could probably get major news sites like The Register banned
under this interpretation.
The hard banning of external sites should be sparingly used and only in
cases where it's absolutely clear that it's appropriate for all
concievable situations. We have human editors with human editorial
judgement for a reason.
The difference is that WR encourages and promotes the investigation and publication of personal information regarding Wikipedia editors. For that reasoon, if for no other, is why linking should be banned...
Brian
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