Hi Fred and All,
In answer to both questions, the page is Jeffrey_Vernon_Merkey. The Talks pages througout the history section and the article are both litered with excertps from the sealed settlement agreement. Delete the page and rollback to the content Wales and I agreed to and lock it, then case closed and I can get back to editing. Please consider this. It's going to take about 35 days total to get an order to take it down ( and I will get the order). How about just accept this proposal, do what Wales and I originally agreed to, and lock the page back to the stipulated content, remove the entire history section (or hide it from the public) to remove the settlement language. Then I can happily get back to editing and not have to worry with that page again.
Thanks,
Jeff
I googled you (at this late date) and find your story quite interesting and a reasonable subject for a Wikipedia article. I have no idea what is in the sealed settlement or how it relates to the information in your article. I also have no idea what the effect of someone publishing the settlement on the internet has. I remember when I was in law school and we would sometimes ask what the law was about this or that and the Professor, wise man that he was, would say that no one knew until the court of last resort had ruled. But finding answers in that manner is, at best, ruinous. I hope you can negotiate a mutually agreeable settlement with Jimmy Wales and Wikimedia Foundation. Clearly though, these issues are beyond the competence of Wikipedia's arbitration committee.
If I were dictator, I would probably just delete the article and protect the page as I can see this causes you pain. I would not unblock you though as you have a track record of litigation and something is sure to happen which will give at least color of a legal claim. We are a rather unruly bunch so expecting that we would all avoid doing something that might offend is unreasonable.
Fred
On Oct 26, 2005, at 4:31 PM, Jeff V. Merkey wrote:
Hi Fred and All,
In answer to both questions, the page is Jeffrey_Vernon_Merkey. The Talks pages througout the history section and the article are both litered with excertps from the sealed settlement agreement. Delete the page and rollback to the content Wales and I agreed to and lock it, then case closed and I can get back to editing. Please consider this. It's going to take about 35 days total to get an order to take it down ( and I will get the order). How about just accept this proposal, do what Wales and I originally agreed to, and lock the page back to the stipulated content, remove the entire history section (or hide it from the public) to remove the settlement language. Then I can happily get back to editing and not have to worry with that page again.
Thanks,
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