Jeffrey O. Gustafson wrote:
To the point of your hyperbolic complaint, please see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:EL#Restrictions_on_linking ... "Sites that
violate the copyrights of others per contributors' rights and obligations
should not be linked."
'Nuff said.
Actually, yesterday in this thread I posted a link to the Wikipedia
database dumps and pointed out that the deleted BJAODN pages were still
in them. So unless linking to Wikipedia database dumps is now
prohibited, it's not as simple as it seems.