I am not quite getting all emails through so this is reconstructed from the archive:
**** *Liesel said:
*Ok, then must have every project the right to ban *interwiki-links to *volapük wikipedia, to prevent the spam with this *links to sites without *further informations.
****
That I do not have an issue with. Certainly any community can decide to accect or reject certain interwiki links.
****
Birgitte SB wrote:
If Volapük Wikipedia is valid community, then they
are
free to create their project by any method that
works
for them. If it is not a valid community, then the WMF should close the project. This is a bright
line.
*Gurch said:
*Well it's not that bright a line, unless someone *comes up with a precise *mathematical definition of what constitutes a "valid *community".
*Anyway, while I personally don't think there is a *valid community, I *don't see that in itself as a good reason to close a *project.
You snipped too much. I meant it is a bright line that we, as outsiders, either close (or reboot if you like) a community or we let them work it out themselves. We can certainly encourage them to adopt a particular policy as local consensus. I have personally done this before. However we do not impose outsiders as admins to do things that are against the local consensus.
Birgitte SB
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