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[mailto:wikien-l-bounces@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'?
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.
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
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