The position I have tried to argue on this issue is that going to SlimVirgin's talk page or some other talk or project page to post, "See, even Slate thinks you are a spy" would be actionable harassment that should be removed, but that this should have no effect on the use of Slate as a reference in any article where it is appropriate.
However, I disagree with Fred that the "remove every mention of a site that contains an attack even from articles" is a strawman. I believe that argument has been made in connection with several sites, on the basis of, "as a top ten site we should not reward bad people with links." Perhaps it was made in bad faith by provacateurs, but I believe it has been made.
Thatcher
On 10/11/07, John Lee johnleemk@gmail.com wrote:
On 10/10/07, fredbaud@waterwiki.info fredbaud@waterwiki.info wrote:
However, John, including this link on our mailing list, or linking to it from within Wikipedia is quite mischievous. Do you believe that pile of crap? Or feel drawing attention to it somehow aids Wikipedia?
Does it not depend entirely on the context and purpose of the link?
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