In a message dated 8/4/2008 9:12:24 AM Pacific Daylight Time, szilagyi@gmail.com writes:
Since BLP is supposed to apply in even strength everywhere on Wikipedia, but talk pages rather stupidly tend to be a free for all, this will keep any nasty crap that may get editors or the WMF itself sued out of the search engines. >>>
Nein my friend. You cannot be sued for bitching at someone or calling them names. Or rather you problem *can* but the complainent would be laughed out of court.
WMF itself cannot be sued for what *I* or *you* say. The responsibility for what we say is ours, no one elses.
Talk pages are not a "free-for-all". If you really think this then you can't have been around any controversial pages much. They are quite frequently wiped, erased, edited, oversighted and so on for issues of BLP and/or libel.
Again this is just more about something which doesn't actually exist, in order to try to get something we shouldn't really want implemented for quite another reason. The way the system is working now is just fine.
Will Johnson
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