On 3/11/06, Daniel Mayer maveric149@yahoo.com wrote:
We can not leave potentially wrong, libelous, and/or slanderous text up while the article >is being reviewed and checked per an Office Action.
Can people make up their mind. Is the justifaction due to legal reasons or not?
Everything is still in the history and all the good bits will be put
back once they are >confirmed and cited.
Blank and delete remember?
Not doing this opens the foundation up to lawsuit by unnecessarily
pissing off the >complaining party while we clean up whatever valid issues (if any) they have with the >article.
A bit hard to clean up a protected article.
Without commenting on those particular references - Not all references are equal. Just >because somebody publishes a completely wrong and biased fact somewhere else does >not give us an OK to cite that information.
Depends who published it. [[Killian documents]] seems to exist.
Good customer service is a great way to prevent pissing people off so much that they >would be willing to sue. So the two are closely linked.
However WP:OFFICE actions seem desighned to maximise the number of people who threaten to sue us.
And reverting an Office Action is pretty much guaranteed to lead to at least temporary >desysoping and blocking.
So are many things.
We also need to feel bold enough to do the right thing when we see an
utter piece of
POV crap and start over by blanking and verifying each and every fact.
Problem is that WP:OFFICE actions have not for the most part touched our piles of POV crap.
Perhaps a better way to do that is via HTML comments ; text would be commented out >until it is verified.
-- mav
That is a tactic I have used from time to time.
-- geni