Will Beback wrote:

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My questions for Will Beback, or anyone else in the future who proposes a new policy that forbids all links to "sites that contain attacks" are this:

#1. Do you agree that the Making Light case was an abuse of power (or at least, incorrect. .-- i.e. Do you agree Making lights should NOT have been purged)?

The blogger abused her power to harass Wikipedia editors. Should her self-published website have been removed as a result, or should she have been "rewarded" by adding more links to it?

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#2. And if so, how will your new proposed policy prevent this sort of abuse when the old policy was unable to. That is-- if we all magically decided to enact your policy today, what's to stop you (or me, or anyone) from turning around tomorrow and having a complete repeat of this whole fiasco tomorrow.

Let me ask you - will your proposal prevent bloggers who edit Wikipedia from using their blogs to settle on-Wiki disputes?

So what I'm taking away from all that, in your opinion, while the admin in the Making Lights case may have made a few minor procedural errors (not solicting 3rd parties first, etc), basically the actions taken were were appropriate. ML should have been purged, or at least, it should have been been purged if it ultimately decided not to self-censor?

Alec