[WikiEN-l] Harassment sites

[Delirium]

Will Beback wrote:
> David Gerard wrote:
>   
>> This would still see michaelmoore.com removed from [[Michael Moore]],
>> so fails the giggle test.
>>
>>   
>>     
> The purpose of Wikipedia is to create articles full of content, not full 
> of external links. I'd argue that the article on Michael Moore does not 
> require a link to his website, nor does any article require having any 
> external link. External links are a convenience to readers, but aren't 
> part of the goal of the encyclopedia.
>   
Sure they are. The technical matter of a link is merely a convenience to 
our users, true, but the mention in the article body that Michael Moore 
runs a popular website is encyclopedic content. And furthermore posts on 
the website of a popular person are reliable sources for that person's 
view, and frequently used as such in academic writing (articles on 
michaelmoore.com are cited in hundreds of journal articles and 
academic-press books). Having a separate self-referential standard for 
sources is bizarre: we should generally not have policies about sources 
that special-case them based on what they say about Wikipedia.

-Mark