Generally speaking, anyone who leaves an edit summary of "You're breaking the law!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" (sic) is probably not someone with legitimate authority. 18 exclamation points does not a legal point make.
-- Jake Nelson
George Herbert wrote:
For your consideration and consternation...
Is it: A) Ilegal B) Immoral C) Fattening
...if US Department of Energy and National Nuclear Security Agency staffers remove an image repeatedly from a Wikipedia article, which came from a Department of Energy press photo, showing the Q clearance badge of the now-former head of NNSA. The claimed reason for deletion is that it's illegal to show the badge, despite the fact that Linton Brooks wore it in public all the time, there are numerous public press photos of it, and that the image in question came from an unclassified government press image freely released (though, they subsequently erased that section of the image with photoshop)...
Several of us have asked the people removing it to identify themselves and explain whether the image was subsequently classified or tell us what law prevents us from legally hosting it, if there is one, and have heard nothing back. All they are doing is deleting it over and over again.
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Q_clearance&action=history