On 5/28/07, Fred Bauder fredbaud@waterwiki.info wrote:
What happens if you let this go is that valued contributors feel isolated and quit because we seem indifferent to the attacks and harassment which is being made. These folks signed up to edit an encyclopedia not for battle.
Fred
If we have to choose between protecting their privacy and writing an encyclopaedia, which should we opt for? Fortunately this is not a problem ATM, because IMO most articles where this would be an issue are articles we can afford to not have, but as Wikipedia grows in importance, it's hard not to envision at some point in the future there being a site containing both useful information and an attack on one or more Wikipedia editors.
At the moment, the idea seems to be that protecting the privacy and reputation of our editors supersedes everything else, including informing our readers and informing our editors (how do you provide examples of personal attacks without linking to them?). Maybe we'll have to agree to disagree, since this is just a clash of values, but I didn't sign up for a project to protect the reputation of Wikipedia editors. I signed up for a project to write an encyclopaedia.
Johnleemk