Kelly Martin wrote:
I have a great deal of respect for the need of the Foundation to take appropriate measures to protect its very real legal interests in the face of potential litigation. I tend to believe that the Foundation is, at its core, more interested in being "an encyclopedia being written by a community" than a "community which is writing an encyclopedia". I'm not so convinced that the same is true of the Wikipedia community as a whole.
And, yes, I am somewhat more in the know on this issue than you are, but that doesn't mean I have all of the pieces of the puzzle either. All rhetoric aside, not all admins on Wikipedia are equal; some of us are clearly more bothered about this than others.
Welcome to Animal Farm.
At this point we have nothing more than a guess that there is potential litigation. That's a great foundation for sand castles. Has anyone ever heard of verifiability?
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