fredbaud(a)waterwiki.info wrote:
From: Will Beback
The purpose of Wikipedia is to create articles full of content, not full
of external links. I'd argue that the article on Michael Moore does not
require a link to his website, nor does any article require having any
external link. External links are a convenience to readers, but aren't
part of the goal of the encyclopedia.
W.
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A prominent person, popular with most of our users, can harass an editor who takes a
political position most of don't like, on his website. If we do anything about it,
other than ask him to quit, we would make ourselves a laughing stock.
Policies are like spiderwebs; they catch flies. Hawks fly through. (Not an original
thought, but based on the Spanish proverb "Laws, like the spider's webs, catch
the flies and let the hawk go free.")
I agree. Sometimes trolling is less
damaging than setting out a
drift-net. Not all species will bite on the troll line, but a drift-net
too easily captures endangered species as a by-catch. The endangered
species often have no market value, so their corpses are just thrown
back. This compounds the destructiveness with wastefulness.
Ec