On Mar 27, 2007, at 5:45 AM, Jimmy Wales wrote:
We are talking about very rare cases. The particular case in question is quite remarkable.
No it's not.
Nor is it vicious crap.
It's a well-sourced article on someone whose only claim to notability is being a famous scam artist. It's sourced to multiple respectable sources each of which gave a non-trivial mention of it. It passes our most stringent sourcing and notability purposes.
The only thing that makes the case remarkable is that the WMF got sued. But this is not a lawsuit about a false, defamatory, or even sloppily done article. This is a lawsuit targeted at WMF on an article where the process had previously worked and worked pretty well. It's a lawsuit targeting us at, if not our best, at least at our pretty darn good.
This is a very important thing to note here - this is very strongly a case where we don't want to give in.
-Phil