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

[Fred Bauder]

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Brian Haws [mailto:brian at bhaws.com]
>Sent: Saturday, April 7, 2007 12:25 PM
>To: ''English Wikipedia''
>Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Suppression of links to 'attack sites'?
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: wikien-l-bounces at lists.wikimedia.org
>[mailto:wikien-l-bounces at lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Bryan Derksen
>Sent: Saturday, April 07, 2007 1:13 PM
>To: English Wikipedia
>Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Suppression of links to 'attack sites'?
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>>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.
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>>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.
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>The difference is that WR encourages and promotes the investigation and
>publication of personal information regarding Wikipedia editors. For that
>reasoon, if for no other, is why linking should be banned...
>
>Brian

I guess the distinction is that they don't openly advocate publication of false information.

Fred