Oh hell no. We aren't modifying articles simply to make people happy. That way
lies madness. We conform to NPOV. Period.
Quoting fredbaud(a)waterwiki.info:
As an alternative to redirecting [[Michael Moore]] to
[[clown]] we
might consider modifying the article and placing a notice at the top
of the article that at the demand of Michael Moore certain changes
have been made in the article.
We could have a policy about that. When threatened or harassed we
could conform the article to the demands made, but place a notice on
it regarding the changes made.
Fred
-----Original Message-----
From: charles.r.matthews(a)ntlworld.com
[mailto:charles.r.matthews@ntlworld.com]
Sent: Monday, October 15, 2007 03:30 PM
To: 'English Wikipedia'
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Harassment sites
"David Gerard" wrote
On 15/10/2007, David Gerard
<dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 15/10/2007, fredbaud(a)waterwiki.info
<fredbaud(a)waterwiki.info> wrote:
> The encyclopedia is the work of the
community, its creation.
Thus the encyclopedia is dependent on the viability and
integrity of
the community.
Yes, but if it comes down to one or the other ...
then what?
And let me say that I consider removing the
michaelmoore.com link from
[[Michael Moore]] to obviously constitute damage to the encyclopedia,
and if the community comes up with a rule that makes that a good idea
then the community is *wrong* and the rule needs removal. That's NPA
vs NPOV, i.e. the BADSITES arbitration.
That's the basis, not of having a rule, but a diplomatic procedure.
"You force our hand here, it's a lose-lose situation. Let's talk
about this." And go on to explain that we can shrug off
point-scoring, but we have internal ways of dealing with issues and
feel that it would be bad not only for us if outside pressures played
a part in those.
Charles
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