On 5/23/07, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
You've had several answers so far and you are responding as if you're looking for a loophole.
We try to presume the editors are non-idiots of good faith. "Logging is bad for these reasons. Don't do it." What on earth more do you need?
Every (rare) time that I've ever seen logs posted on-wiki, they were RVd out and removed. Basically, I was looking for confirmation that it's a fully policy on Wikipedia that posting them is a violation, given what just happened. What if someone had posted the logs of what happened to Jeff? Or Giano? Would these people be in trouble? What policy did they violate?
If the community will is that you can't post them, given how frequently IRC related stuff like this seems to come up, it should be simply stated on Wikipedia then that "Do this, it'll be reverted. Keep doing it, blocked," etc. Otherwise, *if* someone did post them, there should obviously be no repercussions as IRC is a 3rd party service and beyond the scope of Wikipedia's policies and rules at present. Simply saying "You can't do that," isn't sufficient. It needs to be grounded in either policy, law, or the support of the people on-wiki. That's basically it. :)
Regards, Joe http://www.joeszilagyi.com