[WikiEN-l] Harassment sites

[fredbaud at waterwiki.info]

As an alternative to redirecting [[Michael Moore]] to [[clown]] we might consider modifying the article and placing a notice at the top of the article that at the demand of Michael Moore certain changes have been made in the article.

We could have a policy about that. When threatened or harassed we could conform the article to the demands made, but place a notice on it regarding the changes made.

Fred

-----Original Message-----
From: charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.com [mailto:charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.com]
Sent: Monday, October 15, 2007 03:30 PM
To: 'English Wikipedia'
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Harassment sites

"David Gerard" wrote
 
> On 15/10/2007, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 15/10/2007, fredbaud at waterwiki.info <fredbaud at waterwiki.info> wrote:
> 
> > > The encyclopedia is the work of the community, its creation. Thus the encyclopedia is dependent on the viability and integrity of the community.
> 
> > Yes, but if it comes down to one or the other ... then what?
> 
> 
> And let me say that I consider removing the michaelmoore.com link from
> [[Michael Moore]] to obviously constitute damage to the encyclopedia,
> and if the community comes up with a rule that makes that a good idea
> then the community is *wrong* and the rule needs removal. That's NPA
> vs NPOV, i.e. the BADSITES arbitration.

That's the basis, not of having a rule, but a diplomatic procedure. "You force our hand here, it's a lose-lose situation. Let's talk about this." And go on to explain that we can shrug off point-scoring, but we have internal ways of dealing with issues and feel that it would be bad not only for us if outside pressures played a part in those.

Charles

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