[WikiEN-l] Rod Liddle, Spectator, on his Wikipedia article

[wjhonson at aol.com]

Are you certain that you can libel an entity which isn't living?



-----Original Message-----
From: Ian Woollard <ian.woollard at gmail.com>
To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
Sent: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 4:32 pm
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Rod Liddle, Spectator, on his Wikipedia article

2009/4/17 Nathan <nawrich at gmail.com>

> Whether the law applies is moot, for a few reasons but including the 
fact
> that it appears he didn't do anything except use Wikipedia as a prop 
for
> his
> column.
>

Well, he also does appear to be libelling the wikipedia, and he's doing 
it
 from the UK, which is the easiest country to prove libel; the truth 
isn't
even an absolute defence against libel in the UK.

It would be a good idea to check that some or all of the events never
actually happened. Note that it could have happened months or even years
ago; nobody has checked that far back; and we need to make sure that it
wasn't oversighted or something.

Nathan
>

--
-Ian Woollard

We live in an imperfectly imperfect world. Life in a perfectly imperfect
world would be *much* better. Life in an imperfectly perfect world 
would be
pretty ghastly though.
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