On Dec 1, 2007 12:27 PM, Guy Chapman aka JzG guy.chapman@spamcop.net wrote:
On Sat, 1 Dec 2007 11:26:16 -0500, Risker risker.wp@gmail.com wrote:
You can't libel a pseudonymous individual untraceable to real-world identity, as far as I am aware.
Wait a minute...wasn't that what BADSITES was all about?
(Sorry Guy - but you gotta stick with your program here, or people are
going
to call you on it.)
No.
That was easy :-)
Harassment <> libel.
Guy (JzG)
http://www.chapmancentral.co.uk http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:JzG
Interesting you should say that, Guy. I quite agree that there is a difference, and that it is very bad to confuse the two. But BADSITES most certainly involved libel, although you may not have been aware of it, as you were not actively participating in the discussion at the time. Perhaps knowing this will give you some context as to why many of us are extremely wary of the entire concept.
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia%3AAttack_sites&diff=...
For the record, I do not support harassment of anyone, whether Wikipedia editor or subject, admin or IP address, or anyone else. But I am afraid we write a lot of garbage into our policies that make no sense and are completely unenforceable. In another forum, Guy, you've suggested that perhaps there should be some type of 'stable version' of policies, where they are essentially locked and not edited without strong community oversight. I think that is a brilliant idea, and I would be very pleased, in the interests of collaborative editing, to work with you on that concept.
Risker
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