[WikiEN-l] Query for all harassment-related proposals: How are you different from BADSITES?

[joshua.zelinsky at yale.edu]

Quoting Will Beback <will.beback.1 at gmail.com>:

>> #1.  Do you agree that the Making Light case was an abuse of power (or
>> at least, incorrect.  .-- i.e. Do you agree Making lights should NOT
>> have been purged)?
>>
> The blogger abused her power to harass Wikipedia editors. Should her
> self-published website have been removed as a result, or should she have
> been "rewarded" by adding more links to it?

Um what? No one is advocating we reward such people with additional links or
baked cookies. The question is whether to remove links that would be there
otherwise.


>> #2. And if so, how will your new proposed policy prevent this sort of
>> abuse when the old policy was unable to.  That is-- if we all
>> magically decided to enact your policy today, what's to stop you (or
>> me, or anyone) from turning around tomorrow and having a complete
>> repeat of this whole fiasco tomorrow.
>>
> Let me ask you - will your proposal prevent bloggers who edit Wikipedia
> from using their blogs to settle on-Wiki disputes?

Oh to be sure Alec's proposal does not do that. But as we have tried to 
explain,
yours geneally won't either. People will still use their blogs to whine or
attack Wikipedia editors. Furthermore, the vast majority of blogs aren't
notable enough to get linked to anyways.