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

[Fred Bauder]

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Daniel R. Tobias [mailto:dan at tobias.name]
>Sent: Thursday, July 5, 2007 10:22 AM
>To: wikien-l at lists.wikimedia.org
>Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] FredBauder"clarifies"onattack site link policy
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>On 5 Jul 2007 at 03:42:01 +0000, "Fred Bauder" <fredbaud at waterwiki.info> wrote:
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>> Part of the ban is posturing
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>So it's kind of like the "security theatre" we have to endure every time we travel by air... lots of 
>silly rules, enforced in an arbitrary, draconian way, with all sorts of inconvenience to innocent 
>people, which probably doesn't do much or anything at all to prevent actual terrorism, but 
>which show everybody that the authorities are Doing Something.

We need to show visible support for our productive editors and administrators, our "workers".

Fred

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>> So it is very much a matter of saying and meaning:
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>> We will make every effort to support our contributors and to defeat attempts to harass them.
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>...and we don't care how many contributors we need to harrass in order to accomplish this!
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>KamrynMatika seems possibly to have been run off in this way now.. at least, she's blanked 
>out her user and talk pages and hasn't made any appearance in a couple of days, after 
>getting into conflict with the "draconian-link-ban" people.

I hope she realizes that she is welcome to edit and goes on to enjoyably contribute.

Fred