In a message dated 5/22/2010 11:41:53 AM Pacific Daylight Time, wiki-list@phizz.demon.co.uk writes:
<<The foundation or the site admins do moderate. The foundation or they DO have the power, to delete submissions that are considered non encyclopedic, trolling, libelous and etc. There is constant moderation on by or on behalf of the foundation. If not teh Foundation then the admins have responsibility. The foundation is not acting simply as a hosting site that merely stores user submitted data. It is not godaddy, it is not wordpress, it is not even YouTube.>>
*Any* user has the ability to delete content. Is any user now "the foundation" ? That's not an effective argument for the responsibility lying at the top, in fact you've just made the complete opposite argument.
WJhonson@aol.com wrote:
In a message dated 5/22/2010 11:41:53 AM Pacific Daylight Time, wiki-list@phizz.demon.co.uk writes:
<<The foundation or the site admins do moderate. The foundation or they DO have the power, to delete submissions that are considered non encyclopedic, trolling, libelous and etc. There is constant moderation on by or on behalf of the foundation. If not teh Foundation then the admins have responsibility. The foundation is not acting simply as a hosting site that merely stores user submitted data. It is not godaddy, it is not wordpress, it is not even YouTube.>>
*Any* user has the ability to delete content. Is any user now "the foundation" ? That's not an effective argument for the responsibility lying at the top, in fact you've just made the complete opposite argument.
So one can go in and delete all the images from wikimedia with impunity, and as they are reuploaded, one can go back in and delete them again, and again, and again, and again. Or are there mechanisms in place to stop that from happening?
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