On 15/11/2007, William Pietri <william(a)scissor.com> wrote:
But for controversial edits, we individual editors are
the ones with
primary legal responsibility. So I think we editors have to discuss
these thing. And the open nature of our project means we must discuss
them in the open.
Depends. For a UK based editor writing about litigous people in the
UK, my advice (as a somewhat knowledgeable non-lawyer) is: avoid.
Leave the hell alone. Let the Americans deal with it, we have many
good BLP editors in the US. Don't even TOUCH the article lest you get
some liability stuck to you. It sucks, but it's reality under the UK's
horrible horrible libel laws
- d.