[WikiEN-l] Harassment sites

[K P]

On 10/14/07, fredbaud at waterwiki.info <fredbaud at waterwiki.info> wrote:
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Gerard [mailto:dgerard at gmail.com]
> Sent: Sunday, October 14, 2007 12:35 PM
> To: 'English Wikipedia'
> Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Harassment sites
>
> On 14/10/2007, Steve Summit <scs at eskimo.com> wrote:
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> > I must have missed something.  Are there people seriously
> > advocating that [[Michael Moore]] cannot contain a link to
> > michaelmoore.com?  If so, I'd say this proves beyond doubt that
> > the policy-that-can't-be-called-BADSITES really is unworkable,
> > that the bizarre repercussions which some have predicted are
> > not only realistically possible, but have already happened.
>
>
> They have seriously tried to remove the link from the article as
> containing a personal attack on a Wikipedia editor (which it arguably
> did) and edit-warred to keep it off, yes.
>
>
> - d.
>
> _______________________________________________
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> 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).
>
> Fred
>
>
I don't like Michael Moore very much at all, although "Roger and Me"
is one of my all time favorite films.  He's too predictable these
days, though, and sings only one note.  I don't know the user
involved.  I don't see any reason to not post Michael Moore's personal
website in his article--it does make us look like laughig stocks.  But
Wikipedia too readily falls into traps of this nature: the loudest
rudest voices get to dictate policy.

KP