-----Original Message-----
From: Brian Haws [mailto:brian@bhaws.com]
Sent: Saturday, April 7, 2007 12:25 PM
To: ''English Wikipedia''
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Suppression of links to 'attack sites'?
-----Original Message-----
From: wikien-l-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org
[mailto:wikien-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Bryan Derksen
Sent: Saturday, April 07, 2007 1:13 PM
To: English Wikipedia
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Suppression of links to 'attack sites'?
This "violation" is highly dependant on
the context in which it's made. You
can't just find one instance where a
link to a web site is
used as a personal attack and then declare _all_
links to anything on the
entire site, used _anywhere_ in Wikipedia, to be a
personal
attack. I could probably get major news sites like
The Register banned
under this interpretation.
The hard banning of external sites should be
sparingly used and only in
cases where it's absolutely clear that it's
appropriate for all
concievable situations. We have human editors with
human editorial
judgement for a reason.
The difference is that WR encourages and promotes the investigation and
publication of personal information regarding Wikipedia editors. For that
reasoon, if for no other, is why linking should be banned...
Brian
I guess the distinction is that they don't openly advocate publication of false
information.
Fred