[WikiEN-l] Wikipedia privacy concerns

Ken Arromdee arromdee at rahul.net
Tue Apr 17 18:28:50 UTC 2007


[me]
>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.

Someone responded that it's a dead issue.

Well, it's a live issue again.

How in the world is it possible to discuss a policy that is being enforced
ahead of time in a way which prevents discussion of its own merits?



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