On 20/10/2007, Durova <nadezhda.durova(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Here's one possible way to implement this that
wouldn't relate to the NPOV
policy: don't remove links, simply deactivate them. The same information
remains for anyone who wants to cut and paste the URL into a browser
manually. The article content isn't affected. What does get affected is
the outgoing traffic from Wikipedia to the site (since a lot of people are
lazy), and Wikipedia is a very considerable source of link traffic. This
doesn't need to be done on a permanent basis, just as long as...say...a
certain editor got specifically targeted on the home page of Michael Moore's
website.
I haven't pushed this idea particularly because another editor whose
judgement and experience I very much respect asked me not to. I'm not
necessarily advocating it now, rather presenting it as an alternative
perspective at a polarized discussion.
Yes, this is fine and entirely defensible.
Note, of course, that in the recent arbcom case, listing the name of
the site in plain text in an article was removed as a "personal
attack."
- d.