[WikiEN-l] Harassment sites

[fredbaud at waterwiki.info]

-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Summit [mailto:scs at eskimo.com]
Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2007 09:59 PM
To: wikien-l at lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Harassment sites

Fred Bauder wrote:
>[Steve Summit wrote:]
>> ...in the process of discussing (not ignoring) the harassment
>> and formulating plans to minimize or eliminate it, we're going
>> to have to talk about it, and we're going to have to include links
>> where relevant, because [hyper]links are as vital in web-based
>> discourse as bibliographic references are on paper.
>
> If the matter is serious enough that open discussion is inappropriate,
> information regarding the link can be emailed to the arbitration
> committee and we can make a decision without there being public discussion.

If the matter is so sensitive that open discussion is inappropriate,
*all* information about the matter (links and otherwise) will
necessarily be traveling via email or some other non-open channel,
so no special policy for links in such matters should be necessary.

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One wishes.

Fred