Talk:Spam blacklist: Difference between revisions

:[[File:Pictogram voting info.svg|20px]] '''Administrator note:''' This not only is forked content, it is forbidden per link policies and fails as a reliable source. These links are actively being used to attack and harass wikipedia and its users, as stated above...therefore

:Websites outside Wikipedia that are used to facilitate, promote, or encourage the harassment of individual Wikipedia editors and those who choose to edit the encyclopedia is a serious matter. It discourages participation, and may put people in danger.

:;An attack site is a site outside Wikipedia that engages in any of the following:

:#Compiles or sponsors efforts to obtain evidence that may be used to discover the real world identities of Wikipedia contributors;

:#used to impugn a person's character

:#Harasses or sponsors harassment of Wikipedians;

:#Makes or sponsors legal threats toward Wikipedians

:#An attack site might be run by an individual, in the form of a private website or a blog, or it could be a virtual community, such as another wiki or discussion forum.

:'''Previous consensus, rulings, practice'''

:* [[Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/MONGO#Principles|Some rulings from the Arbitration Committee on linking to attack sites]]

::* "Any user, including an administrator using administrative powers, may remove or otherwise defeat attempts at harassment of a user. This includes harassment directed at the user themselves." See [[Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/MONGO#Combatting_harassment|#Combating harassment]]

::* "Links to attack sites may be removed by any user; such removals are exempt from 3RR. Deliberately linking to an attack site may be grounds for blocking." See [[Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/MONGO#Links_to_attack_site|#Links to attack sites]]

::* "Users who link to webpages which attack or harass other users or to sites which regularly engage in such activity are responsible for their actions." See [[Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/MONGO#Support_of_harassment|#Support of harassment]]

::* "A website that engages in the practice of publishing private information concerning the identities of Wikipedia participants will be regarded as an attack site whose pages should not be linked to from Wikipedia pages under any circumstances." See [[Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/MONGO#Outing_sites_as_attack_sites|#Outing sites as attack sites]]

::ArbCom rulings^{[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/MONGO#Principles]}<br>

::*'''Harrassment'''<br>

:::1) ''It is unacceptable to harass another user.'' <code>(Pass 6-0 at 02:08, 20 October 2006 (UTC))</code> <br>

::*'''Combatting harassment'''<br>

:::2) ''Any user, including an administrator using administrative powers, may remove or otherwise defeat attempts at harassment of a user. This includes harassment directed at the user themselves.'' <code>(Pass 6-0 at 02:08, 20 October 2006 (UTC))</code> <br>

::*'''Links to attack site'''<br>

:::3) ''Links to attack sites may be removed by any user; such removals are exempt from 3RR. Deliberately linking to an attack site may be grounds for blocking.'' <code>(Pass 5-0-1 at 02:08, 20 October 2006 (UTC))</code><br>

::*'''Solidarity'''<br>

:::4) ''Wikipedia users, especially administrators, will not permit a user under attack to be isolated, but will support them. This may include reverting harassing edits, protecting or deleting pages, blocking users, or taking other appropriate action.'' <code>(Pass 5-0 at 02:08, 20 October 2006 (UTC))</code> <br>

::*'''Support of harassment'''<br>

:::7) Users who link to webpages which attack or harass other users or to sites which regularly engage in such activity are responsible for their actions [[Wikipedia:No_personal_attacks#Off-wiki_personal_attacks]]. <code>(Pass 6-0 at 02:08, 20 October 2006 (UTC))</code><br>

::*'''Outing sites as attack sites'''<br>

:::11) A website that engages in the practice of publishing private information concerning the identities of Wikipedia participants will be regarded as an attack site whose pages should not be linked to from Wikipedia pages under any circumstances. <code>(Pass 6-0 at 02:08, 20 October 2006 (UTC))</code><br>

::*'''Linking to external sites as harassment'''^{[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/Attack_sites]}

:::4.2) Linking to external sites which contain information harmful to another person so as to harass them is unacceptable. <code>(Passed 7-0 at 20:35, 17 October 2007 (UTC))</code><br>

:Blocking would not only be uncontroversial, it is '''Supported''' by Previous consensus, rulings, and practice. --[[User:Hu12|Hu12]] 16:36, 27 April 2011 (UTC)