I have a few thoughts to express on this issue:
BADSITES is not a policy, but NPA is a core policy. The external links
section of NPA deals directly with this issue.
However, Wikipedia is not a person. So any "attack" on Wikipedia that does
not single out individual volunteer contributors would, in my opinion, not
be covered at all by NPA. Attacks on Wikipedia that promote disruption must
surely be covered by another policy, but it would not be NPA. Legitimate
criticism of the project itself is not something I would consider
necessarily an attack, or a promotion of disruption.
I also draw a distinction between a website that might have a personal
attack against a contributor embedded in a sub page, and one that has the
attack on their main index page. In the former case, if one is linked to a
completely different sub page, one would have to really go looking for that
attack. In the latter case, all one has to do is click "home" to find it.
I don't claim to have the solution to this problem, but these aspects should
be considered.
Crockspot
On 8/26/07, Daniel R. Tobias <dan(a)tobias.name> wrote:
On 26 Aug 2007 at 17:00:07 +0100, <charles.r.matthews(a)ntlworld.com>
wrote:
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"Daniel R. Tobias" wrote
* Anti-pedophile site Perverted Justice set up a
redirect based on
HTTP referrers so that anybody following links to any page in their
site from Wikipedia get redirected to a criticism page that blasts
Wikipedia for not cracking down on pedophile editors. This made the
whole thing an "attack site" according to some who seem to think that
anything that has anything critical to say about Wikipedia is an
"attack" that must not be linked to.
Question: What connection would there be between compiling an
encyclopedia, and linking to any site which took the step of
redirecting incoming links to somewhere not intended?
I mentioned what was ultimately done in response to the redirection,
the changing of links to unlinked URLs in places where they're needed
as references. Such a forced redirection should be treated like any
other case where a link is made less usable, like a "404 Not Found"
dead link, a page retreating behind a registration-required login
wall, a site redesign leading to it being inaccessible in some
browser versions or full of annoying, intrusive ads... in all of
these cases, the use of the link needs to be reconsidered, possibly
changed to a "nowiki" URL or to an archived copy somewhere else or to
an alternate site with similar content, and possibly the site owner
should be informed of the unusability of their link in an
encyclopedia and encouraged to fix it. But in none of these cases is
there the "moral panic" of saying "They're an eeeeeeeeeeeevil Attack
Site and all references to it need to be DESTROYED!!!!!!!"
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