[WikiEN-l] Harassment sites

[fredbaud at waterwiki.info]

-----Original Message-----
From: Daniel R. Tobias [mailto:dan at tobias.name]
Sent: Sunday, October 14, 2007 01:50 PM
To: wikien-l at lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Harassment sites

On 14 Oct 2007 at 19:03:28 +0000, fredbaud at waterwiki.info wrote:

> No question it contained an attack, including a link to edit our
> user's page. The problem is that many of us like Michael Moore
> very much and don't care much for the viewpoint of the user
> involved. Applying our policy in a rote manner (Without
> consideration of the unwritten rule that we support prominent
> subjects that we like) yields removal of the link (At least while
> it contained the personal attack). 

That sounds like you're advocating having a draconian anti-link 
policy, then making special exceptions to it for "people we like". 
That doesn't seem very fair to me.


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== Dan ==
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I'm just making the situation clear. It turned out that the best alternative with Michael Moore was talking to him. (or with whoever was running his site). I think in all cases we need to be thoughtful about what we do, not apply some cookiecutter policy. Part of being thoughtful is gaging our own sentiment.  Sometimes you just have to accept foolishness and get on with things. We are not always consistent. And for good reason.

Fred