[WikiEN-l] Harassment sites

[Daniel R. Tobias]

On 19 Oct 2007 at 12:20:49 -0400, "David Goodman" 
<dgoodmanny at gmail.com> wrote:

> I've just come across a link to Wikipedia Review in an AN/I archive.
> It was inserted by a member of ArbCom in the announcement of an action
> of theirs to give the justification.

That doesn't surprise me.  When I was compiling evidence to present 
in the recent ArbCom case, I came up with several examples of people 
who clearly regarded sites such as that as horrendous scum... and who 
linked to them in order to make whatever point they were trying to 
make about the sites or the people who participate in them.  Being 
restrained from linking to something that's relevant to a point 
you're making is not something that comes naturally, even to many of 
the people who find the sites in question to be repugnant.  Back 
before various editors, admins, and the ArbCom began making a fuss 
about linking to so-called "attack sites" about a year ago, it was 
very commonplace to link to them in order to criticize them (putting 
the lie to assertions, sometimes heard, that it was "always" the 
common practice to ban such links and that the ArbCom was only 
ratifying this "common sense" practice), and even after that it has 
sometimes happened despite all the wikidrama about such links.

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