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From: Slim Virgin [mailto:slimvirgin@gmail.com]
The ArbCom's decision is good as a rule of thumb. Note that it says:
"[a] website that engages in the *practice* of publishing private
information concerning the identities of Wikipedia participants will
be regarded as an attack site whose pages should not be linked to from
Wikipedia pages under any circumstances ..." (emphasis added). That
doesn't include an otherwise decent website that happens to repeat a
Wikipedian's name without that person's consent. It's not a good thing
that someone has been named, but that one act doesn't tranform it into
an attack site.
People who want to be able to link to the dedicated attack sites are
exaggerating the arguments to make their opponents look nuts. Common
sense has to be applied, as always.
This is an accurate analysis of the situation.
Fred