Oh, for goodness sake, can we please stop discussing Brandt.
You've no idea how many legal threats OTRS gets every day. Broadly, we
try to help the subject as much as our inadequate biographical policies
allow, and and ignore the threats. Threats go the the lawyers - who
ignore most of them anyway.
Why is the Wikipedia community so obsessed with Brandt?
The legal aspects are for the foundation and its lawyers, if Brand does
ever sue. For the rest of us - forget it. It isn't our concern. His
legal threats are no more (or less) dangerous than the rest, and the
assessment does not lie with the community.
As for the community:
1) If you think we're treating Brandt fairly: then fine, ignore him.
Certainly don't encourage him! Don't make him more than he is.
2) If you think he was a point or two about biographies (as I do): then
no matter what you think of him, try to change things. Certainly don't
troll him.
I'm just fed up with people going on as if Brandt was Satan, the
anti-Jimbo, the ultimate wiki-boggy man. We don't need need this - and
neither does he.
Drop it.
Doc