On 10/18/07, Will Beback
<will.beback.1(a)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".
I think by using "or" he meant to say that the harassement might end prior to
THF leaving.