-----Original Message----- From: Andrew Gray [mailto:shimgray@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 7, 2007 02:23 PM To: 'English Wikipedia' Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] For your consternation...
On 07/02/07, George Herbert george.herbert@gmail.com wrote:
For your consideration and consternation...
Is it: A) Ilegal B) Immoral C) Fattening
...if US Department of Energy and National Nuclear Security Agency staffers remove an image repeatedly from a Wikipedia article, which came from a Department of Energy press photo, showing the Q clearance badge of the now-former head of NNSA. The claimed reason for deletion is that it's illegal to show the badge, despite the fact that Linton Brooks wore it in public all the time, there are numerous public press photos of it, and that the image in question came from an unclassified government press image freely released (though, they subsequently erased that section of the image with photoshop)...
Several of us have asked the people removing it to identify themselves and explain whether the image was subsequently classified or tell us what law prevents us from legally hosting it, if there is one, and have heard nothing back. All they are doing is deleting it over and over again.
I am reminded of a nice chap, editing from somewhere deep in *.mil, who kept trying to remove a map of the Green Zone, citing "operational security" reasons. The fact that we had obtained the map from the website of a US Congressman didn't seem to faze him...
(On examination, that claim boiled down to the user not understanding that a rule which said *he* couldn't talk about something didn't have to apply to everyone else)
In this case... if there is a legal issue, please direct him to Brad and ask him to cite chapter and verse.
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- Andrew Gray
andrew.gray@dunelm.org.uk
Done
Fred