On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 8:23 PM, doc doc.wikipedia@ntlworld.com wrote:
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Students should now write an essay on one of the following:
- In terms of personal jurisdiction, analyze whether an allegedly
defamatory Wikipedia page edit can establish jurisdiction over the user in an unforeseeable state, so long as the defamation created harm in that state.
Or
- Discuss why this particular Wikipedia article is bullshit.
Pass.
I'm actually going through a list of unmarked BLPs (a small list of 300 articles, part of a much bigger selection). It would be interesting to see what I'm seeing there is representative of the whole, or not.
See the following:
AN discussion:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Archive...
Worklists:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Nixeagle/BLPPotential
The 300 I'm working through:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Carcharoth/Sandbox3
Further thoughts:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Carcharoth/Biographical_and_new_articles_c...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Carcharoth/Biographical_and_new_artic...
Old proposal I made:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Biographies_of_living_persons/Ar...
Carcharoth