[WikiEN-l] Harassment sites

[fredbaud at waterwiki.info]

-----Original Message-----
From: George Herbert [mailto:george.herbert at gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, October 15, 2007 03:34 PM
To: 'English Wikipedia'
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Harassment sites

On 10/15/07, fredbaud at waterwiki.info <fredbaud at waterwiki.info> wrote:
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Gerard [mailto:dgerard at gmail.com]
> Sent: Monday, October 15, 2007 03:04 PM
> To: 'English Wikipedia'
> Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Harassment sites
>
> On 15/10/2007, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 15/10/2007, fredbaud at waterwiki.info <fredbaud at waterwiki.info> wrote:
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> > > 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.
>
>
> - d.
>
> _______________________________________________
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> There is threatening to remove the link, temporarily removing the link, using removal of the link as a negotiation point, negotiating, etc. And saying that due to his high status (and the low status of the editor who offended him) we should shine it on.

Is it possible to outright block any edit attempts with an external
HTTP referrer?

We could probably safely do that as a blanket policy.  Someone could
still say "go here, and then click on edit" with the link to the page
to edit, but that requires more steps for the abuser hordes, which
cuts down on the number that will follow through.


-- 
-george william herbert
george.herbert at gmail.com

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That might be a bit of a coding problem as the link is not to a discrete page, but it might be possible to redirect a user of the link to a page which explains the inappropriateness of the request. We could redirect the targeted user page to a policy page, for example.

Fred