[WikiEN-l] Harassment sites

[fredbaud at waterwiki.info]

-----Original Message-----
From: Will Beback [mailto:will.beback.1 at gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, October 22, 2007 05:44 PM
To: 'English Wikipedia'
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Harassment sites

joshua.zelinsky at yale.edu wrote:
> Quoting Will Beback <will.beback.1 at gmail.com>:
>
> 
>> If Wikipedia becomes known as a volunteer job that leads to off-site
>> harassment that the community will do nothing to stop then that might
>> tend to reduce the appeal of editing too.
>> 
>
> Will, as many editors have pointed out to you, we aren't saying that we
> shouldn't do anything. The objection is solely to the removal of links that
> would otherwise definitely be in an article.
>
> 
>> I again dispute that removing poor sources harms NPOV.
>> 
>
> Again, we've already explained how these aren't "poor sources" and multiple
> editors have already discussed how this harms NPOV. Simply saying "I again
> dispute X" doesn't make the arguments for X any weaker.
>
> 

We'll have to agree to disagree on some of this. The specific proposal I 
made received little support here and the discussion of it does not 
appear to be making progress so I'll stop advancing it.

I hope we do all agree that harassment of Wikipedia editors should not 
be tolerated by the community, and that the community should take all 
reasonable steps to prevent or minimize it. We do need to decide what 
steps are appropriate. A mailing list may not be the best forum for 
working out a consensus on this issue.

Will Beback


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No, it isn't. But thank you for making a good faith effort to advance a reasonable policy regarding harassment of users.
Fred