[WikiEN-l] Suppression of links to 'attack sites'?

[Charli Li]

Steve Summit just had to cough out the following stream of bytes from
the specified email client, on 4/7/2007 1:46 PM
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As the original poster has said:
> We should "know thine enemy"; we shouldn't act like a mind-control 
> cult trying to stop its members from finding out about critics and 
> what they have to say, but we should encourage our editors to read 
> such criticism -- and refute it on the many occasions where it's 
> wrongheaded.  But occasionally the critics say something right, too.  
> Anyway, when they're threatening to sue Wikipedia and its editors, 
> shouldn't we make ourselves aware of this?  Banning all links to the 
> site would prevent that too.
Obviously the site has violated NPA, and even on the NPA policy page, it
says that :
> Posting a link to an external source that fits the commonly accepted
> threshold for a personal attack, in a manner that incorporates the
> substance of that attack into Wikipedia discussion, including the
> suggestion that such a link applies to another editor, or that another
> editor needs to visit the external source containing the substance of
> the attack.
This site is an external source of personal attacks.  Even planning to
sue us and our fellow Wiki*edians is a personal attack.

-- 
Charli (Vishwin60)
I'm pleased that the Ministry of Culture is protecting the morals of the
expat bankers and their girlfriends that are going to be coming. ~Mick
Jagger