On 15/11/2007, William Pietri william@scissor.com wrote:
But for controversial edits, we individual editors are the ones with primary legal responsibility. So I think we editors have to discuss these thing. And the open nature of our project means we must discuss them in the open.
Depends. For a UK based editor writing about litigous people in the UK, my advice (as a somewhat knowledgeable non-lawyer) is: avoid. Leave the hell alone. Let the Americans deal with it, we have many good BLP editors in the US. Don't even TOUCH the article lest you get some liability stuck to you. It sucks, but it's reality under the UK's horrible horrible libel laws
- d.