Hi Tinu:
Thanks for posting this - yes, legal counsel and a risk assessment is
something we are actively looking at doing - a question, would the community
know if this has ever happened or threatened to happen earlier or is this
the first example?
Thank you.
Best,
Gautam
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On 26 February 2011 08:44, CherianTinu Abraham <tinucherian(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote:
Here you go ! The first legal threaten against
Wikipedia India !
To set the context to those who were not reading the thread of
WikimediaIndia facebook page,
Basavaraj Itnal [1] is a senior journalist from Bangalore. He is in
a campaign against an alleged land-grabbing and scam by a popular mall owner
in Bangalore. He did write articles on this in the publications he is
associated with. He even added information earlier to Wikipedia article of
Garuda Mall [2] and apparently was blocked once ( by an Indian admin with a
pseudo name ? ) .
He also attended one of the Bangalore Wiki-meetups recently. After that
he shifted to focus to fight his POV to Wikimedia India Facebook recently.
[3] and also pushing it on the article [4] . Of late he is threatening to
sue Wikipedia and Wikimedia admins. Knowing his aggressiveness, i don't
think he can be taken lightly.
I am not sure whether he is intending to sue against the Wikimedia
Foundation, ( office in India ) or India chapter or individuals from India
who are admins ( OMG, that includes me :) )
Time for a legal contact in India ?
Thoughts?
Regards
Tinu Cherian
P.S.I couldn't find the contact mail id of Geoffrey Brigham, the new
legal counsel of the Foundation.
[1]
http://twitter.com/#!/basavarajitnal
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/basavaraj-itnal/23/a9b/4b9
http://www.facebook.com/people/Basavaraj-Itnal/100000540087375
[2]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garuda_Mall
[3]
http://www.facebook.com/WikimediaIndia?sk=wall&filter=12
[4]
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Garuda_Mall&action=historysub…
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> Basavaraj Itnal commented on WikimediaIndia's wall post.
> Basavaraj wrote: "anyways, while i respect what you guys are doing, i
> am actively looking for a legal recourse to make wiki admins accountable and
> available to legal action. as for Garuda issue is concerned after doubting
> the veracity of my documents without verifying them and without again cross
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