[WikiEN-l] Harassment sites

[joshua.zelinsky at yale.edu]

How is this substantially different when implemented in article space? The end
result, that links are not the same as they would be in article space in a
clearly non-optimum fashion remains. At this point, we are arguing for smaller
and smaller differences that do two things 1) symbolically show that the
community supports the editors and 2) damages the articles in the process.

Quoting Durova <nadezhda.durova at gmail.com>:

> 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.
>
> -Durova
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