[WikiEN-l] BADSITES ArbCom case in progress

[David Goodman]

I am glad to have such a clear statement, to disagree with. The
purpose of an honest encyclopedia is to take the truth from wherever
it appears, and to refer accurately even to the works of those who
work against the truth.

If they are malicious, their maliciousness will be apparent when
exposed. That's the basic principle of all respectable journalism. to
hide the views of one's opponents--even one's bad faith opponents--is
censorship. I will defend WP by all intellectually honest means, but
hiding the views of those who attack it is not such. It's not even
productive--that we think their views dangerous enough to unlink adds
to their credibility.

The reason NPOV is the most basic of principles is that without it, no
source of information can be trusted, or is worth even producing.
Fred, your well-intentioned policies will have the unintended end of
destroying our credibility.


On 9/21/07, fredbaud at waterwiki.info <fredbaud at waterwiki.info> wrote:
>
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Daniel R. Tobias [mailto:dan at tobias.name]
> >Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2007 11:08 PM
> >To: wikien-l at lists.wikimedia.org
> >Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] BADSITES ArbCom case in progress
> >
> >On 20 Sep 2007 at 21:33:58 +0000, fredbaud at waterwiki.info wrote:
> >[long line rewrapped]
> >> We do not have an exception to [[Wikipedia:No personal attacks]]
> >> which permits linking to a personal attack on an external web
> >> site.
> >
> >Which is relevant if you buy into the concept that "everything not
> >explicitly permitted is prohibited."
> >
> >Anyway, the questions at issue tend to be of the form "Does the above
> >apply in any way to a link, for a purpose unrelated to any attack, to
> >a site that happens to also have attacks in it?"
>
> Depends on the site. If the site is used in a campaign of harassment, maliciously, yes.
>
> Fred
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David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S.