on Thu, 8 June Erik Moeller noted:
Wikipedia is an insanely bad idea from a legal point of view and would never have been started through _any_ process which we are actually using in our organization to start things.
Dear Erik, could you kindly elaborate? I'm personally favor the concept of positioning your- self out of harms way in the first place rather than plunging into some slime pit of leaches just because it's the norm. So I sense you have valuable insights here that could spare us a world of big hurt & havoc!
Z.Clark .
On 6/8/06, Zack Clark meta@world1tours.com wrote:
Wikipedia is an insanely bad idea from a legal point of view and would never have been started through _any_ process which we are actually using in our organization to start things.
Dear Erik, could you kindly elaborate? I'm personally favor the concept of positioning your- self out of harms way in the first place rather than plunging into some slime pit of leaches just because it's the norm. So I sense you have valuable insights here that could spare us a world of big hurt & havoc!
See [[John Seigenthaler, Sr.]]. We publish potentially libelous information alongside a huge collection of well-referenced quality material, under the same logo, without any distinction for the reader between one and the other. We make that information available as free content, and allow anyone to scrape it off our site or download our database, meaning that the libelous information gets copied all over the place. Legally speaking, if Wikipedia didn't exist, no lawyer would ever approve it.
Erik
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