On 10/18/07, Will Beback will.beback.1@gmail.com wrote:
Folks often say that removing links violates NPOV.
That's an over-simplification. Folks actually say that making content decisions based upon a subject's behavior toward the project, or upon any other internal politics, violates NPOV.
In this case we'd be left with an article which is, so to speak, self-referential by omission.
But a much larger effect on POV comes when editors are harassed off of Wikipedia because of content-related edits or decisions.
There are more circuit hops than you've acknowledged. More like harassment -> drama -> RFAR -> psuedo-policies -> unrevertable article edits (lest ye be banned) -> POV problems. Over-simplified again. Not all of these things always happen.
We can always add the link back after THF leaves (as all editors eventually do) or the harassment ends.
Good lord. I hope you meant to say "and" rather than "or".
—C.W.