On 10/07/07, Guy Chapman aka JzG guy.chapman@spamcop.net wrote:
On Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:50:16 -0700, Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net wrote:
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There's a big difference between clarifying policy and expanding policy.
Yes. And in this case they *clarified* policy. Policy is: no privacy violations, no attacks, no stalking, no harassment. Clarification is: not even by writing it elsewhere and then linking to it.
I don't see any arguments against the banning of linking to web *pages* that contain personal attacks, etc., on Wikipedia users.
What I see are arguments against the banning of links to entire web *sites* that happen to contain some such pages. I also haven't seen any justification for such a ban.