On 9 Sept 2002, Adam Williamson wrote:
Everyone else - is there a Wikipedia policy on balance in external links?
Neutral Point of View covers that. On their face the two links look ok.
I don't agree. There's nothing exactly wrong with including those links, but they're just odd as the first and only links on the page.
What's really "just odd" is that amid calls for Helga to be banned, she offers a link to an article that with minor editing would join the argument on behalf doing so:
"Out of this long and painstaking examination I have come reluctantly to the conclusion that nazi-sympathizer internet kooks should not be allowed to write Wikipedia articles. I am now convinced that a nazi- sympathizer internet kook is not a free person. Freedom, I believe is the most essential ingredient of Wikipedia and democracy."
I propose the "Communists Should Not Teach in American Colleges" link be moved to [[Censorship]] under the heading "Philosophical arguments for censorship," as its contribution to the topic of the [[Communist Party of the United States of America]] appears relatively inessential.
It could go there too, and possibly in an article about McCarthyism, but I think it belongs as one link among others which have a more friendly view. That sort of policy was eventually overturned by decisions of the Supreme Court, but it illustrates how a portion of the American public felt about Communists.
Fred