On 5/30/07, Blu Aardvark jeffrey.latham@gmail.com wrote:
jayjg wrote:
No, the litmus test should be "does this link benefit Wikipedia in any way".. And the answer, as it turns out, is "almost never".
This is equally fair. Indeed, it's really a different wording of the same concept. If the link benefits Wikipedia in any way, it's pretty likely that removing it will stir up drama. And vice verse,
Well, except for the fact all the trolls etc. that cry "censorship" the second you delete something that is *not* benefiting Wikipedia.
They always were rare.
Well, I have to grant that this is fairly legitimate. Despite my best efforts when I was an admin on that forum, it was next to impossible to keep a lid on things, and things have only gone downhill since.
Actually, it's not very hard to keep a forum civil. Set up proper rules, delete posts that contravene them, and ban repeat offenders.
Nonetheless, there are a number of occasions where there are reasoned discussions that don't involve personal attacks
It's like panning a thousand tons of ore by hand to find one speck of gold.
Aside from providing the venue for it and cheering on the perpetrators.
Harassment and stalking, no. That isn't cheered on in the slightest, and users who have been found to have engaged in it have been removed from the forum in the past.
Hmm, hypothetically speaking, if someone started trying to get in touch with what he believed were past work colleagues, boyfriends, family of boyfriends, etc. of a Wikipedia editor, would he be banned for harassment and stalking, or would he be lauded as perhaps the most respected member of the forum?
As for "defamation", I don't think that's really a valid concern regarding Wikipedia Review. There have been some nasty personal attacks, but nothing defamatory. Of course, other sites *do* engage in this practice.
Here's another hypothetical question; if WR were posting what it thought was the real name of a Wikipedia editor, and further asserting that that person was a CIA spy, mentally unbalanced, and various other similar claims, would you consider that "defamatory"? Or do WR posters have a unique definition of defamatory that ends with "...except when it's about Wikipedia editors, then anything goes."