On 31 May 2007 at 11:16:14 +0100, "David Gerard" dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
On 31/05/07, Michael Snow wikipedia@att.net wrote:
Just to keep the facts straight, the link in question was not a link to Wikipedia Review. I know Sheldon has mentioned the possibility of such links in discussion of hypotheticals, but I don't recall that The Wikipedia Signpost has ever linked to Wikipedia Review.
Right. So what was the reasoning given for the repeated removal of the non-WR link?
That it was to a site (Brandt's site, being discussed in that article) that had in the past hosted personal information about Wikipedia editors, and might again in the future (although it didn't actually have such information at the time). So they changed the article so it still *discussed* the site, but didn't actually link to it. Brandt then retaliated by adding the personal info page back to his site, meaning that this link removal actually increased the amount of editor "outing" on the Internet. (He later took the page back down again, but is threatening to put it up yet again, though this time he apparently only wants to "out" admins, not regular editors.)