On Thu, 6 Mar 2003 21:05:45 -0800, Jonathan Walther krooger@debian.org wrote:
More realistic scenario: somone puts something defamatory on. Another person tries to remove it. Rest of Wikipedia dogpiles on person doing the removing, forming a "consensus" that the information should remain in. Said person is then banned by Jimbo for his edits. I think the case would be pretty clear that the Wikipedia as a group, and Jimbo Wales in particular, had "taken responsibility" for the content at that point.
It was fairly silly of the person to simply delete rather than raise a point of discussion. However, if there is evidence that a discussion has taken place, I guess that Jonathan is right and that there is some consensus approval of the material.
Perhaps Wikipedia needs some formal process (a page?) where individuals concerned can register a complaint that they believe maretial about or conencted to them to be unfair/defamatory?