jayjg wrote:
Currently a number of editors are working on a
guideline to deal with
this issue, at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Linking_to_external_harassment
What, if any, do you see as the differences between their work and
your own proposal?
Well, what I wrote certainly wasn't a "proposal"; it was merely
my attempt to distill the essential elements of the argument and
(perhaps) their emerging consensus, as I saw them. (Though I
concede that the third point was more wishful thinking on my
part than the first two.) My intent was not to propose policy,
but rather focus discussion.
What deficiencies do you see in the guideline as it
currently stands?
On that guideline's talk page, GTBacchus wrote, "I can't keep
up with the mailing list." But me, I can't always keep up with
policy and talk pages. So I can't answer that yet.
It's starting to look like a crucial issue is, as I wrote on the
guideline's talk page just now, the distinction between "linking
to harass" and "linking to harassment". Everyone agrees on (not
doing) the former; it's the latter that's much more problematical.
If we want to ban mere links to harassment, we have a lot more
work to do in defining what that means, and articulating why we
want to, and resolving conflicts with other core policies, and
limiting collateral damage.