[WikiEN-l] Wikipedia privacy concerns

[Fred Bauder]

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Ken Arromdee [mailto:arromdee at rahul.net]
>Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2007 03:24 PM
>To: 'English Wikipedia'
>Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Wikipedia privacy concerns
>
>On Thu, 12 Apr 2007, Denny Colt wrote:
>> This conversation spawned from some vehement opposition to a proposed policy
>> to ban links to attack, outing, and hate sites aimed at hurting Wikipedians.
>> The policy is:
>> 
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Attack_sites
>
>That has been getting Kafkaesque because the "policy" has been used to *ban
>links in the discussion about the policy*.  That's right, in discussing a
>policy about whether attack sites may be linked to, nobody may ever use an
>attack site as an example of why one might want to link to an attack site.

Perhaps you can see why there has not been a lot of open discussion of the topic.

Fred