Will Beback wrote:
When folks are doing good they shouldn't be targetted for harassment by POV pushers.
Absolutely true.
When they are we should stand by them.
Absolutely true.
But if I disagree that blind link removal will help, don't say that I'm not standing by them. That's like asking me if I've stopped beating my wife.
We lose the moral highground and compromise NPOV
Huh? (And in another post you said you weren't worried about the moral high ground.)
when we say to folks that are trying to change Wikipedia content that they are free to harass those who enforce Wikipedia policies,
But we never say this.
and editors who don't like it need to go edit elsewhere so the POV pushers can have their way.
And we never say this, either.
(If an editor can't manage to ignore inane criticism, we may suggest that the editor edit a different page for a while, but in doing so we're neither saying that they must leave the project, nor that the harasser has gotten his way.)