I don't think there is a BLP project - but there is a noticeboard, frequented by editors and admins alert for violations and other potential problems. I agree with Dan that there are views that raise potential legal problems even if yours do not. Since there is no unified vision or general consensus of how the VC would be constituted or what it would do... It makes sense to test any visions against Mike's view of what crosses a legal line.
Nathan
On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 10:37 AM, Andrew Whitworth wknight8111@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 10:17 AM, daniwo59@aol.com wrote:
GerardM's proposal states: "This council will be about the projects and
will
deal what makes the projects function better." As such: 1) would
someone
angry with a project be able to give notice to this PC; and 2) is this
PC, by
its very nature, somehow be construed as involved in the creation and development of content?
I've been thinking about the council as a sort of gigantic, cross-project "wikiproject" of sorts. A wikiproject on wikipedia takes self-responsibility in creating and managing content, responding to complaints about that content, etc. I'm not a Wikipedian, so I don't know all the details. However, I would like to know how wikiproject "biographies of living persons" (or the closest analog, if such a project does not exist by that name) handles the complaints and notices that it must receive on a regular basis? I assume that if you send a notice to a wikiproject or to the PVC, or even to OTRS, those notices will be routed to an appropriate destination.
I am sure someone more legally minded can formulate even better
questions.
Perhaps the answer is No, as you suggest. But it sure would suck to
find out
that the speculation was wrong while in the middle of a court case.
This is true, and I agree that it would be good to hear from an expert on the matter before doing anything. However, if we procede under a different set of limiting assumptions, a lot of legal problems that people have been having with this whole proposal seem to disappear into thin air. Perhaps, for the sake of argument, we should all be making some of these limiting assumptions right about now.
--Andrew Whitworth
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