-----Original Message----- From: joshua.zelinsky@yale.edu [mailto:joshua.zelinsky@yale.edu] Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2007 06:43 PM To: wikien-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] BADSITES ArbCom case about to close

Quoting fredbaud@waterwiki.info:

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If the link is to a personal attack, it should not be republished. Depends on what's on the other end.

Fred

Um, where is this coming from? Is this from Fred as the great arbitrator, Fred as interpreting community consensus, Fred discussing what he would block for or what?

Following that question, do you really think that applies in general? This would imply that a discussion on ANI can't link to a personal attack and say "hey, this editor made the following personal attack. We should block them for it" but will instead say "Hey an editor made a personal attack, but I can't show it to you, so you'll have to go through his contribution list until you find it" That's unworkable and unproductive. If this isn't what you mean, some clarification would be nice.

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Like I said, it depends. How hurtful is it? How much harm will it do? How sensitive is the person being attacked? How necessary is it for everyone to go look at it? The point is to act responsibily with respect to the situation which is presented to you.

Fred