On 21 Sep 2007 at 11:44:16 +0000, fredbaud@waterwiki.info wrote: [long line rewrapped to comply with RFC 2822]

Let's suppose, James Farrar, that the "point of view" that is being linked to was an accusation that you, James Farrar, were an employee of the Central Intelligence Agency, a registered sex offender, a Nazi (Plug in what ever would cause the most trouble in your personal situation). Now, how does that link look to you?

Well, I obviously can't answer for James, but let's say that the site was saying stuff like that about me, Dan Tobias. I believe my response would be to want to link to it from my user page (if this didn't violate any policies), in order to laugh at the silly accusations being made about me. In fact, at one point I had links to both the Brandt HiveMind and MerkeyLaw pages while they attacked me, for this purpose (which didn't, at the time, cause anybody to go batshit about how I was "linking to attack sites").

Meanwhile, if it happened that the same site had a page in it that happened to have lots of interesting palindromes, and no attacks on anybody on that particular page, and that page was linked in the [[Palindrome]] article with the link text "Collection of interesting palindromes", I would not go berzerk about how whoever was editing the Palindrome article was committing grievous personal attacks on me by linking to something in the same domain as somebody else's attack. I would have the sense not to invent a personal attack where none existed.