Quoting John Lee johnleemk@gmail.com:
On 10/17/07, Thatcher131 Wikipedia thatcher131@gmail.com wrote:
On 10/17/07, John Lee johnleemk@gmail.com wrote:
Hyperlinking a personal attack is tantamount to a personal attack now? I guess we should lock up everyone who gathers evidence of personal
attacks
for evidence pages, since they've been linking to these by the shitload.
Johnleemk
I know Halloween is right around the corner, but we really don't need any straw men is this discussion. Let's stick to discussion of links to external sites that harass, expose and intimidate editors.
But if we avoid self-references and try to maintain a neutral point of view, it really shouldn't matter whether a link is external or internal; a personal attack is a personal attack. If we ignore the context and purpose of a hyperlink for external links, why do we give leeway for internal links?
Pet peeve: Avoiding self-reference is a style guide, not a content guide. That's why we can have articles like [[Jimbo Wales]] and [[Wikipedia]]. Heck, I think we're getting to the point where we could legitimately write a well-sourced article about Wikipedia Policy. And there'd be nothing wrong with that aside from the minor detail that there are more important articles to write first.