[WikiEN-l] Harassment sites

[joshua.zelinsky at yale.edu]

Quoting fredbaud at waterwiki.info:

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: William Pietri [mailto:william at scissor.com]
> Sent: Friday, October 19, 2007 06:08 PM
> To: 'English Wikipedia'
> Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Harassment sites
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> fredbaud at waterwiki.info wrote:
>>> The problem is the cases in the middle. What overrides NPOV?
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>> I still don't understand what NPOV has to do with this. A link to 
>> edit a Wikipedia user's page is as shameful for MIchael Moore as any 
>> excess of ours. In a way, linking to it puts him in a false light, 
>> displaying petty bullying.
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> The NPOV violation here is that in the POV of some of us, harassing,
> maligning, or exposing Wikipedia editors is a bad thing. More
> specifically, it is seen as the one bad thing in all the world that
> might merit link removal. Other people do not share this POV.
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> Perhaps one could make an NPOV-friendly case for removing all links to
> all harassment, or maligning, or exposing of anonymous or pseudonymous
> people. It would be even more clearly consistent with NPOV to argue for
> a removal of all links to all living miscreants everywhere.
>
> Needless to say, I don't think those are a good idea either. I think our
> job is to give people the facts as best we can, while leaving the moral
> judgments to our readers.
>
> William
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> _______________________________________________
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> Yep, your stawmen are indeed straw. You know they are not genuine 
> alternatives, just debating points.
> Fred
>

Fred, if there are strawmen above please explain what they are. I at 
least don't
see any.