-----Original Message----- From: James Farrar [mailto:james.farrar@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, March 26, 2007 07:37 PM To: 'English Wikipedia' Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Out of process deletions
On 27/03/07, Ron Ritzman ritzman@gmail.com wrote:
On 3/26/07, Steve Bennett stevagewp@gmail.com wrote:
Also, I have a hard time imagining a situation where it is absolutely impossible to purge POV from the bio of an otherwise notable person without nuking the article.
But is that the point? If a credible legal threat it made, we might as well just delete the thing first and ask questions later. No single article is worth getting sued over - whether the Foundation would win the case or not.
Such cases are why we unfortunately have the necessary evil that is WP:OFFICE.
Indeed.
And in the absence of an Office intervention, surely an admin speedily deleting an article that has already failed an AfD is acting beyond his powers?
No, any user may remove or delete libelous or malicious material without limit.
Fred
On 3/27/07, Fred Bauder fredbaud@waterwiki.info wrote:
-----Original Message----- From: James Farrar [mailto:james.farrar@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, March 26, 2007 07:37 PM To: 'English Wikipedia' Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Out of process deletions
On 27/03/07, Ron Ritzman ritzman@gmail.com wrote:
On 3/26/07, Steve Bennett stevagewp@gmail.com wrote:
Also, I have a hard time imagining a situation where it is
absolutely
impossible to purge POV from the bio of an otherwise notable person without nuking the article.
But is that the point? If a credible legal threat it made, we might
as
well just delete the thing first and ask questions later. No single article is worth getting sued over - whether the Foundation would win the case or not.
Such cases are why we unfortunately have the necessary evil that is
WP:OFFICE.
Indeed.
And in the absence of an Office intervention, surely an admin speedily deleting an article that has already failed an AfD is acting beyond his powers?
No, any user may remove or delete libelous or malicious material without limit.
Fred
Go ahead then. Let's start being productive and identify this so-called libellous material, because as far as I'm concerned there's nothing in the Bauer article that is badly cited or libellous.
Mgm