Quoting Will Beback will.beback.1@gmail.com:
#1. Do you agree that the Making Light case was an abuse of power (or at least, incorrect. .-- i.e. Do you agree Making lights should NOT have been purged)?
The blogger abused her power to harass Wikipedia editors. Should her self-published website have been removed as a result, or should she have been "rewarded" by adding more links to it?
Um what? No one is advocating we reward such people with additional links or baked cookies. The question is whether to remove links that would be there otherwise.
#2. And if so, how will your new proposed policy prevent this sort of abuse when the old policy was unable to. That is-- if we all magically decided to enact your policy today, what's to stop you (or me, or anyone) from turning around tomorrow and having a complete repeat of this whole fiasco tomorrow.
Let me ask you - will your proposal prevent bloggers who edit Wikipedia from using their blogs to settle on-Wiki disputes?
Oh to be sure Alec's proposal does not do that. But as we have tried to explain, yours geneally won't either. People will still use their blogs to whine or attack Wikipedia editors. Furthermore, the vast majority of blogs aren't notable enough to get linked to anyways.