On 8/19/06, Steve Bennett stevagewp@gmail.com wrote:
On 8/19/06, Anthony wikilegal@inbox.org wrote:
How about linking to the edit where you removed it? When someone paranoid goes in and removes that from the history, well, then we're screwed, but at least until then someone can figure out what the hell you're talking about.
Ok, so now we've moved from "I removed the bit where it claimed that John Smith slept with Mrs Robinson" to "I removed this defamatory claim - click here to see what it said".
Materially, what's changed?
I'd phrase it as "I removed a possibly defamatory claim because it was unsourced [link to diff]". What's materially changed is that the claim is a bit more hidden, and probably more importantly, that the claim won't show up in a google search (as diff pages are under the robots exclusion).
It's also just cleaner and easier (IMO). Why copy/paste the claim when you can just link to it?
Anthony