On Mon, 9 Jul 2007, John Lee wrote:
If WR links were only deleted for not being reliable sources, we wouldn't be *having* this fuss. Most of the questionable deletions of WR and
similar
links are under circumstances where reliable sources are irrelevant--talk pages, Wikipedia signpost, etc.
Why post a link to a site which engages in harassment and outing, if it's not even a reliable source? In what way is that not dickish?
Because different people have different interpretations of the phrase "reliable source". It is not dickery to disagree on what constitutes a reliable source; it is a content dispute. How the dispute is resolved, of course, may result in dickery from one or both sides.
In this case, a better answer is "because reliable sources don't always matter". Non-reliable sources get linked in talk pages all the time. We don't delete them.