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.)