On 7/3/07, The Mangoe the.mangoe@gmail.com wrote:
On 7/2/07, Slim Virgin slimvirgin@gmail.com wrote:
All our policies and practices are blunt instruments in the wrong hands. They need to be applied with common sense.
Well, all our policies ARE in the wrong hands. Wikipedia, after all, is also "the encyclopedia whose policies may be interpreted and acted upon by anyone."
The NYT case is excessive; but it only sticks out because IAR steps in and says that nobody can take erasing all links to the NYT seriously.
No, it sticks out because it's not covered under the arbcom ruling.
It's OK to erase links to any crticial site because people can say these sites are bad and get away with it. In the case of TNH the story that her blog was an attack site couldn't be seriously sustained-- but it didn't stop someone from trying.
They could have done it for all sorts of other reasons based on [[WP:EL]], and people have. The issue was with the individual's reasoning.