Ian Woollard wrote:
I'm
particularly tired of the appeal to British libel law.
Oh dear.
Although it's not unanimous, there *is* a reasonably strong consensus
that Wikipedia is not going to compromise NPOV for UK libel law, any
more than it'll compromise NPOV to try to get unbanned in mainland
China. Even many of the UK editors agree with that position. Basically
the UK is nuts on this point, and we can't reasonably follow their law.
For example, it's illegal in some cases to report accurately that
someone was convicted of a crime and later pardoned -- but any
reasonable biography of a public figure who was convicted of a crime and
later pardoned must of course mention that fact.
Without being able to report the
pardon we would be left with only those
places who published before the pardon was granted. That strikes me as
tantamount to forbidding NPOV.
Ec