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.