On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 1:08 AM, wjhonson@aol.com wrote:
The Right Honourable Mr Godwin:
In the world outside this mailing list, the fact that I'm responding to this extent to these criticisms would itself be taken as proof of transparency, not disproof.
Well yes, but after the fact. If I'm reading the criticism correctly the point being made is that within the process there might be some room for *including* the community in these actions...
Personally I'm in favour of a strong legal lead to protect the community. If there's a debate to be had, I'd rather see action taken and then the discussion had afterwards as to whether we have a strong community feeling for those things to then be replaced.
To do it the other way, by community consensus *first*... well, the overwhelming majority are not lawyers and even fewer will be cognisant of the laws pertaining to copyright or other issues that hit Wikipedia.
So I trust Mike Godwin to protect us all and *then* be challenged on his actions whilst, in the interim, we lose the content under discussion.
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