Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia disclaimers

The issue has been discused a year ago, when it was tried to make "Biographies of living people" an official policy at http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Discusi%C3%B3n:Votaciones/2007/Biogr…, I did not explain in full detail such things because I realize those are local issues and I did not want to bother with topics wich are trivial for this channel. The main topics of Wikimedia projects being under US law or not and if disclaimers have to say X things or can be made up as users like, is worth being asked here; if this or that proposal should be official policy at X or Y project, is not. In fact, I'm not even interested in fair use, my main topics of edit are about history, and I can work very well with paintings in PD. I'm not hiding my username. I'm Belgrano at that project, and before the username change I was Thialfi. I simply couldn't figure out how to configure things. Out of topic: I did consider posting the topic in there for discussion. However, the most likely outcome of that would be the first administrator thinking that the request is correct ad adding the text to the disclaimer, and later one of the users who refuse to mention the the projects being under US law would accuse me of trying to deceive he first administrator and introduce sneak changes without it being noticed. So, before posting in there I wanted to make sure if it's really a topic subject to local consensus or if there is a global and official stance. I asked at the forum in Meta (considering it would be a project-wide type of question), and from there I had been redirected here. I doubt I would post more mails here anyway unless redirected again, it's a complicated system and I prefer the village pumps or talk pages. I know, those are internal issues of no concern here, I just wanted to explain myself. I think the answers received are enough to understand the situation I asked in the first place, so this thread can be finished. 2008/10/13 Platonides <Platonides(a)gmail.com>