[WikiEN-l] Harassment sites

[George Herbert]

On 10/19/07, Jimmy Wales <jwales at wikia.com> wrote:
> RLS wrote:
> > Dude.  Nobody's arguing against removing a poor source.  We're arguing
> > against removing valid, useful sources just because the same site
> > contains harassment of an editor. THAT will cause us to violate NPOV.
>
> Isn't this fairly rare, though?
>
> Let's not get too hung up on edge cases.  The bulk of the cases of
> interest are links to sites that are *literally* harasssment sites,
> through and through, and not valid references for anything at all.
>
> 1. No one is arguing (I hope) that links to Encyclopedia Dramatica are
> valid sources for articles.
>
> 2. No one is arguing (I hope) that a random evil post on a BBC
> messageboard would make it ok to ban all links to the BBC.
>
> The only real question is where and how to draw the line, but we are
> actually fortunate in this regard: there are virtually no borderline
> cases as an empirical matter.
>
> --Jimbo

Making Light is the canonical counterexample which proves that we have
to figure this one out, though.

David's been trying to get Will to admit that removing ML links was a
mistake, and as I read the responses in the last couple of days we
still do not have agreement on that point.

There's a continuum, with BBC on one side, Moore and Making Light in
the middle, and ED/WR/AntisocialMedia at the far end.

We really do need to get the middle clarified.


-- 
-george william herbert
george.herbert at gmail.com