On 4/20/07, Cascadia <cascadia(a)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).