Jimmy Wales wrote:
Bryan Derksen wrote:
It seems to me like you may be trying to use policies and guidelines to support a decision already made for other unrelated reasons. Are you actually removing this link on some sort of "human decency" grounds, as I recall you've done in other cases in the past?
In this particular case, no. But I do think such things are relevant.
Now, as to Ogrish, I will add supporting arguments in the next couple of days. Please treat this as an ordinary editing discussion among rational people, not an edict from above.
I have been. My lack of an initial revert was because I recognized you as a long-time editor who's likely to answer my questions, not because I feared the wrath of the God-King. I'm not a monarchist or theist. :) There's no urgency now if there's no actual video on Ogrish any more, though it'd always be nice to expand the article on Ogrish itself some.
I notice now that you also removed a similar external link to a video from the Memory Hole website from [[Nick Berg]] with the same "RS, NOR" reason. You should add a more detailed rationale there too, especially considering there appears to be a lot of past discussion of the matter in talk already. I believe I've also used Memory Hole myself as a source of information in the past, so I'd be interested to hear of problems with its reliability. The homepage claims it's won the Project on Government Oversight's "Beyond the Headlines" Award 2005.