[WikiEN-l] Another "BADSITES" controversy

[jayjg]

On 5/30/07, David Goodman <dgoodmanny at gmail.com> wrote:
> I am a little puzzled why we should link differently to site attacking
> wikipedia than to sites attacking anything else, and why we should pay
> more respect to the privacy of wikipedia people than we would pay to
> anyone else.
>
> Treating ourselves -- as individuals or as an organization -- as
> something in special in articles violates NPOV, and COI, besides
> providing a perfect target for our enemies. I actually believe in
> those two principles. Those who would make exceptions for themselves
> do not.

Wikipedia editors do a huge amount of work for Wikipedia, and get
little in return. The least they can ask is that Wikipedia itself not
increase the readership of site that attack them -  attacks that have
come about precisely because they have been doing work for Wikipedia.