It seems pretty well done, George. I took the liberty of highlighting what I
think one of the key points regarding not trying to figure out if it is a
hoax. The police, as a rule, want to hear of this, and we should err on the
side of protecting human life.
--Avi
--
en:User:Avraham
----
pub 1024D/785EA229 3/6/2007 Avi (Wikipedia-related) <aviwiki(a)gmail.com>
Primary key fingerprint: D233 20E7 0697 C3BC 4445 7D45 CBA0 3F46 785E
A229
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: "George Herbert"
<george.herbert(a)gmail.com>
To: "English Wikipedia" <wikien-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2007 17:37:14 -0700
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] London calling, etc.
There had been some attempts to make a policy document on "what to do"
in response to apparently suicidal Wikipedians
on-wiki, which failed
to gain consensus for various reasons. After a brief discussion on
another mailing list this week, I went and posted an essay describing
how we've responded to prior incidents and why. This will hopefully
serve to some extent as a guide for future incidents.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Potentially_Suicidal_Users
..also linked as [[WP:SUICIDE]], which previously went to one of the
failed policy proposals.
Please let me know if I have misstated prior response standards in any
significant way.
Thanks.
--
-george william herbert
george.herbert(a)gmail.com