On 3/29/06, Steve Bennett <stevage(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Dunno about you, but being threatened by a guy
who's proud that he
cost the other side $1,000,000 in a lawsuit that he lost works very
well with me.
Then you're easily intimidated, because the first thing anyone who is
seriously trying to threaten you with legal action will do is pull $
amounts out of their rear end. I think the word "terrorist" should
generally be avoided for totally different reasons: It is ambiguous
and has strong emotional connotations. We can use it if we attribute
it to someone else, but for Wikipedia to adopt such a term as fact is
always problematic. There are good reasons it is listed on
[[Wikipedia:Words to avoid]].
This is not a matter of giving in to Horsley's threats, it's a matter
of rigorously applying policy, which we should always do when facing
such threats. Many will not see the difference, but it will become
more visible as the article evolves over the years.
Erik