[WikiEN-l] Harassment sites

[Wily D]

On 10/16/07, Steve Summit <scs at eskimo.com> wrote:
> David Gerard wrote:
> > I've also strongly suggested that the "external links" section of NPA
> > be abolished. It's being used as an excuse to damage article content.
>
> If that section were limited to saying something like
>
>         A link to a personal attack on an external website,
>         inserted into a Wikipedia page in a context that furthers
>         the linked-to attack, is tantamount to an on-wiki
>         personal attack and is equally prohibited under this policy.
>
> ; if we got rid of all the footnotes and tortured language
> suggesting that the section has aspirations of morphing back
> into some bastard stepchild of BADSITES, I think it would be fine
> and noncontentious, and could and should stay.  (In other words,
> "You can't get around NPA by putting the PA on an external site
> and linking to it.")
>
The even more silly thing is that NPA has always said this.  It
doesn't say "No personal attacks and no harrassing people ... unless
you use external links to do it, then it's fine".  The position you
expound above has been in place as long as NPA has, and has been
enforcable the whole time, without ArbCom, without drama, without
bullshit.

Cheers,
WilyD