[WikiEN-l] Harassment sites

[Daniel R. Tobias]

On 19 Oct 2007 at 17:08:26 -0400, Steve Summit <scs at eskimo.com> 
wrote:

> William Pietri wrote:
> > ...the question of external links in other spaces would yield to a 
> > similar approach, but it's not as directly analogous.
> 
> At the risk of prolonging a discussion that's already rather
> egregiously long in the tooth, what do people think about those?
> One of the larger objections to BADSITES and its resurrection
> in WP:NPA#EL concerned the prohibition of links to attack sites
> even in talk and project spaces, even as part of sober discussion
> of the alleged personal attacks.  Is there still any sentiment to
> keep trying to ban those kinds of links?

Apparently, JzG does... despite the ArbCom having no interest in his 
attempt to get them to "clarify" their recent decision into a flat 
ban on linking to Wikipedia Review, he's gone on a one-man scouring 
of the Shire tonight, going and removing links to that site from 
various talk pages and such, some of them in posts from a year ago 
that didn't seem to offend anybody at the time (in some of the 
threads involved, JzG is one of the people who replied back when they 
were originally posted, and didn't seem at the time to find it to be 
beyond the pale that there would be a link to a site that had 
something relevant to the discussion).

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