On 19 Oct 2007 at 17:08:26 -0400, Steve Summit scs@eskimo.com wrote:
William Pietri wrote:
...the question of external links in other spaces would yield to a similar approach, but it's not as directly analogous.
At the risk of prolonging a discussion that's already rather egregiously long in the tooth, what do people think about those? One of the larger objections to BADSITES and its resurrection in WP:NPA#EL concerned the prohibition of links to attack sites even in talk and project spaces, even as part of sober discussion of the alleged personal attacks. Is there still any sentiment to keep trying to ban those kinds of links?
Apparently, JzG does... despite the ArbCom having no interest in his attempt to get them to "clarify" their recent decision into a flat ban on linking to Wikipedia Review, he's gone on a one-man scouring of the Shire tonight, going and removing links to that site from various talk pages and such, some of them in posts from a year ago that didn't seem to offend anybody at the time (in some of the threads involved, JzG is one of the people who replied back when they were originally posted, and didn't seem at the time to find it to be beyond the pale that there would be a link to a site that had something relevant to the discussion).
Dan Tobias wrote:
... despite the ArbCom having no interest in his attempt to get them to "clarify" their recent decision into a flat ban on linking to Wikipedia Review, he's gone on a one-man scouring of the Shire tonight, going and removing links to that site from various talk pages and such, some of them in posts from a year ago that didn't seem to offend anybody at the time...
Gaahh. That sounds spectacularly POINTy.
Since the damage (i.e. to forgotten year-old posts) is presumably pretty slight, and since WP:POINT typically doesn't apply in practice to long-time editors, he'll probably get away with this, but it seems very wrong.