New subject: London calling, etc.

9 Oct 2007

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

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  From: "George Herbert"
&lt;george.herbert(a)gmail.com&gt;
 To: "English Wikipedia" &lt;wikien-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org&gt;
 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.

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 -george william herbert
 george.herbert(a)gmail.com