On Dec 1, 2007 12:27 PM, Guy Chapman aka JzG <guy.chapman(a)spamcop.net>
wrote:
On Sat, 1 Dec 2007 11:26:16 -0500, Risker
<risker.wp(a)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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