On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 6:23 PM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
Wikipedia has made plenty of enemies over the years, some of them fairly wealthy. I think there is a good chance of someone deciding to cause trouble if they think they can win. It only takes one.
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That's easier said than done. It would probably end up requiring the deletion of any article they contributed to, unless someone's willing to take the time to go through each article and just delete the parts they specifically contributed to.
And let's imagine that someone is willing to pay to Ramman (I think that I said the right name) and a number of other significant contributors to sue Wikipedia and that a couple of them is willing to take the offer. Number of articles only on English Wikipedia may be a couple of hundreds of thousands.
They also may make a GFDL fork of Wikipedia. Maybe even not to really build a free encyclopedia, but just to damage it while pretending that they are really wanting to do so.
There are a couple of more really bad possibilities in that way, which raises the question: Does anyone really think about the possibility for really bad consequences?