On 3/30/07, Slim Virgin slimvirgin@gmail.com wrote:
What we should be asking is whether what we're doing is reasonable. Is it reasonable to host pages about living persons that can be edited by any anonymous person of any age in the world, when we have no clear way of patrolling those pages to make sure anything negative or unfair is removed immediately?
I'd say yes, it is reasonable. Every free webhosting site on the Internet does exactly what you described. And I'd note that the only way *not* to have the situation which you describe would be to disallow anonymous editing or to run every edit through a review board.
And when, even when such pages are spotted, getting rid of the bad stuff often involves a giant fuss, with admins unsure of what action they're allowed to take, because if they go too far they risk being desysopped?
That's unreasonable, but I think you'd have a hard time blaming the WMF for such a situation.
Anthony