On Wed, 30 Nov 2005, Delirium wrote:
Delirium wrote:
I don't, in general, see a problem with this.
If something is incorrect in
any way, it should be corrected or removed (whether it is libelous or not
is irrelevant---non-libelous misinformation has no place either).
I should add that, from both an ethical and legal perspective, this is pretty
much exactly how all other publicly-editable forums works. If someone posts
a libelous message on an AOL message board, or in a livejournal, or anywhere
WHAT other publicly-editable forums? I don't know of any at the level of
group-authorship of quotes, sentences, paragraphs, and essays.
Wikipedia has developed and propagated an elaborate and nuanced style
guide -- from the detailed external link policy down to the popularization
of the term "disambiguation" -- one of its greatest accomplishments.
This is what helps thousands of unrelated people to work together to
maintain a high apparent standard of quality and consistency.
WP also implicitly has an apparent editorial standard, as there is no
single name or person or author associated with an article -- not even a
list of names, if you just read the main article page and don't know which
magic buttons to press; other mediawiki instances (wikitravel) are better
about this. No forum, newsgroup, etc I can think of has ever given off
that same impression.
--SJ