What's your purpose?
Fred
-----Original Message----- From: John Lee [mailto:johnleemk@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2007 10:01 PM To: 'English Wikipedia' Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Is Slate an attack site?
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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On 11/10/2007, fredbaud@waterwiki.info fredbaud@waterwiki.info wrote:
What's your purpose?
The purpose is, fairly obviously, to raise the unresolved issue. I believe you have an arbitration case in progress on the matter. Perhaps it's of concern to people.
- d.
On 10/11/07, fredbaud@waterwiki.info fredbaud@waterwiki.info wrote:
What's your purpose?
Fred
Posting the link to the list? To raise discussion of the issue in meta terms about policy, of course.
The really interesting thing about this Slate piece is that it is very citeable for other subjects - if we want to cover Google's privacy issues, this is probably one good source. Should we not cite this piece because it happens to have one paragraph attacking and/or outing a prominent Wikipedian? Now we aren't even in the realm of attack sites - we're in the realm of whether a webpage which tangentially attacks a Wikipedian but contains good citeable content is one we can link to.
Johnleemk