Karl A. Krueger (kkrueger(a)whoi.edu) [050415 05:47]:
I have another related concern. People seem to
occasionally bring up
these purported legal risks as an attempt to get their way on an issue
of Wikipedia governance or policy. While this is clearly not a
violation of the _letter_ of the [[Wikipedia:No legal threats]] policy,
it seems to me to border on infringement of the _spirit_ of that policy.
In these cases, the contributor is not *themselves*
threatening to sue
if they don't get their way. Rather, they are claiming that if they do
not get their way, that *someone else* is likely to sue. This seems to
me to be a "legal threat by proxy" or some such, and it does not seem
like a very honorable way to go about a policy discussion.
Seconded. Cut this crap without some really quite solid backing.
- d.