[WikiEN-l] Harassment sites

[David Gerard]

On 18/10/2007, Will Beback <will.beback.1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Let's call the editor in good standing "Joe" and the the issue
> cockfighting, though it wasn't. It's a topic with an eager and engaged
> group of proponents. There's a website called "RoosterChat" and
> Wikipedia had an article on it (that was eventually deleted as
> non-notable). Joe took some actions and edits to correct the NPOV of
> articles on the topic and became the target of that community's ire.
> They posted messages on their chatboard with his personal information,
> including phone number, and a request that board members call him at
> work to convey their feelings. The immediate situation was handled
> through diplomacy, but in the long term the editor was forced to reduce
> his involvement in the topic and take other steps to restore his privacy.
> How should a policy deal with this situation? Should we maintain our
> link to the chatboard (which could only used because it was the subject
> of the article). Should we link to the harassment as an example of that
> community's activism? Should we tell valued editor that the link is more
> important than his privacy or well-being?


Do you think Joe should delete every link to RoosterChat to be found
in article space?


- d.