On 5/30/07, David Goodman dgoodmanny@gmail.com wrote:
I am a little puzzled why we should link differently to site attacking wikipedia than to sites attacking anything else, and why we should pay more respect to the privacy of wikipedia people than we would pay to anyone else.
Treating ourselves -- as individuals or as an organization -- as something in special in articles violates NPOV, and COI, besides providing a perfect target for our enemies. I actually believe in those two principles. Those who would make exceptions for themselves do not.
Wikipedia editors do a huge amount of work for Wikipedia, and get little in return. The least they can ask is that Wikipedia itself not increase the readership of site that attack them - attacks that have come about precisely because they have been doing work for Wikipedia.