On 8/18/06, Sarah <slimvirgin(a)gmail.com> wrote:
The requirement not to move potentially defamatory
material to talk
pages is because they're cached by Google (and even if they weren't,
they're read by a lot of people), and the point is to stop the spread
of the defamation. [snip]
There are lots of ways material can be discussed with directly
referring to it, and people can ask for a reliable source for all
edits without specifying the particular edit that's caused the
problem. We don't need to say: "Do you have a source for the claim
that Professor Sir John Doe was seen with a woman not his wife in a
nightclub last night?"
I'm sorry, but I don't see how that question is "potentially
defamatory", assuming that someone actually did make such a claim.
Anthony