[WikiEN-l] FredBauder"clarifies"onattackkkkk site link policy

[David Gerard]

On 02/07/07, Slim Virgin <slimvirgin at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 7/2/07, James Farrar <james.farrar at gmail.com> wrote:

> > If you're referring to the linking of real names to account names
> > without authorisation by the person in question, this mailing list has
> > been guilty of that at times. This would then make wikimedia.org
> > unlinkable.
> > The Mongo ruling is a blunt instrument. It's not surprising it's
> > hurting the encyclopedia.

> All our policies and practices are blunt instruments in the wrong
> hands. They need to be applied with common sense.


This policy is not being applied with common sense. It's being applied
stupidly and damagingly.


- d.