[WikiEN-l] Harassment sites

[Will Beback]

joshua.zelinsky at yale.edu wrote:
> Quoting Will Beback <will.beback.1 at gmail.com>:
>
>   
>> Claiming the moral high ground is not part of the mission of Wikipedia.
>> If someone else wants to claim it then fine,. let them. The purpose of
>> Wikipedia is to create a free, neutral encyclopedia.
>>     
>
> Wikipedia exists in the real world, and the project's reputation matters. It
> effects whether people will be likely to help us out or to join or to simply
> read. If we're thought of as an authoritarian, censoring dictatorship, 
> not many
> people will join us. Furthermore, you can't have it both ways. You can't say
> "The purpose of Wikipedia is to create a free, neutral encyclopedia" but only
> have that be relevant when you want it to, and not when you want to remove the
> link. Either NPOV is what we're striving for or it isn't. But we don't only
> strive for NPOV when it is the convenient part of Will Beback's argument.
>
>   

If Wikipedia becomes known as a volunteer job that leads to off-site 
harassment that the community will do nothing to stop then that might 
tend to reduce the appeal of editing too.

I again dispute that removing poor sources harms NPOV.

Will