David Gerard wrote:
MacGyverMagic/Mgm wrote:
It's less about authorship and more about accountablility. We need those names so we know who to hold responsible if the info is wrong.
Yep, knowing who to ask. The thing that *really* gets Wikipedia editors upset about things like the Siegenthaler article is not the possibility of a libel case - it's that the article was *wrong*. THAT gets people into action.
Absolutely, and yet so many people get themselves all in tangles over the legal aspects.
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