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From: Charli Li <chengli1(a)verizon.net>
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.
This "violation" is highly dependant on the context in which it's made. You
can't just find one instance where a link to a web site is used as a personal attack
and then declare _all_ links to anything on the entire site, used _anywhere_ in Wikipedia,
to be a personal attack. I could probably get major news sites like The Register banned
under this interpretation.
The hard banning of external sites should be sparingly used and only in cases where
it's absolutely clear that it's appropriate for all concievable situations. We
have human editors with human editorial judgement for a reason.