On 4/20/07, Cascadia cascadia@privatenoc.com wrote:
I specifically stated that I could not find any admin action that could be taken by any admin that could be sued upon without the complatintant being laughed out of the court room...
Do not rely on your internal lawyer. Not so long ago the entire text of a Harry Potter novel was posted on Wikipedia several times over, very shortly after the novel was published. Each example once detected was immediately deleted. Had just *one* administrator copied the text of that novel from the deleted pages area of the database and published it elsewhere, he would have been liable for a very serious lawsuit, and possibly worse (copyright infringement can in certain circumstances be a crime). Similarly, had just *one* administrator undeleted the deleted material, both he and possibly Wikipedia could have been exposed (though S230 might exempt Wikimedia Foundation).