I suppose it would just be too easy to note that threats of legal action are already listed in "No personal attacks," wouldn't it?
-Snowspinner
On Jun 15, 2004, at 10:41 AM, Mark Richards wrote:
Well, I think one way to do this would be to have a policy that no discussion of lawsuits could take place on the wiki, that is to say that, once a user has declared their intention to take legal action surrounding Wikipedia or its users, the policy would be to block that user and anyone else who discussed it, because of the potential for incrimination / liability etc. Ban them, and direct them to raise the issue offline with the foundation's legal representative. Most companies and non-profits have a similar rule that their employees and volunteers are not empowered to discuss legal aspects. If they drop the case, or it is settled, then allow them back. Mark
--- Mark Pellegrini mapellegrini@comcast.net wrote:
I don't know if many of you are aware, but last week we had a user in here
(http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Special: Contributions&target=Fel
ix_F._Bruyns) who was on a personal crusade to make wikipedia 'family friendly' - IE, by censoring our articles. Needless to say, it didn't go over very well. Long story short, he ended up threatening to sue several contributors -
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=User_talk: Raul654&diff=3853204&oldid=3852747,
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=User_talk: Moriori&diff=3853177&oldid=3852828
I started digging through our policies, and found this dusty relic:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:No_legal_threats
At this point, it's only a proposal. Also, it doesn't actually *do* anything. I'd like to suggest adopting a terminate-on-site rule -- you make a legal threat, and you're automatically banned. I'd like to know what others here think.
--Mark
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