-----Original Message-----
From: Will Beback [mailto:will.beback.1@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, October 22, 2007 05:44 PM
To: 'English Wikipedia'
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Harassment sites
joshua.zelinsky(a)yale.edu wrote:
Quoting Will Beback <will.beback.1(a)gmail.com>om>:
If Wikipedia becomes known as a volunteer job
that leads to off-site
harassment that the community will do nothing to stop then that might
tend to reduce the appeal of editing too.
Will, as many editors have pointed out to you, we aren't saying that we
shouldn't do anything. The objection is solely to the removal of links that
would otherwise definitely be in an article.
I again dispute that removing poor sources harms
NPOV.
Again, we've already explained how these aren't "poor sources" and
multiple
editors have already discussed how this harms NPOV. Simply saying "I again
dispute X" doesn't make the arguments for X any weaker.
We'll have to agree to disagree on some of this. The specific proposal I
made received little support here and the discussion of it does not
appear to be making progress so I'll stop advancing it.
I hope we do all agree that harassment of Wikipedia editors should not
be tolerated by the community, and that the community should take all
reasonable steps to prevent or minimize it. We do need to decide what
steps are appropriate. A mailing list may not be the best forum for
working out a consensus on this issue.
Will Beback
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No, it isn't. But thank you for making a good faith effort to advance a reasonable
policy regarding harassment of users.
Fred