In that case, my "perhaps" is hereby changed to a "Sorry, I can't do
it" because there are issues of liability concerning minors.
Also, in case you were thinking of asking, there is no such thing as
emancipated minor status in the State of Arizona: all minors must have
legal guardians here (though this is not the case in other states).
Mark
On 03/06/05, Sean Barrett <sean(a)epoptic.org> wrote:
Anthere stated for the record:
Sean Barrett a écrit:
David Monniaux stated for the record:
I think that all Wikipedia pages should contain
somewhere (say, at the
bottom) a link to a page where people could complain about the content
of the articles. (I'm talking here of complaints about breach of
privacy, copyright violation, libel etc.)
Thank you for volunteering to handle all these complaints promptly and
without pay.
That might not be *exactly* the right time to tell him that, after he
spent several days on such an issue :-)
Touché. My point, on the other hand, remains that having a /official/
complaint channel incurs the liability -- the legal obligation -- to
handle those complaints in a reasonably prompt and effective manner.
The vast majority of those complaints can be properly handled by
replying "go away, kid, you bother me," but occasionally someone will be
seriously offended, and the resulting lawsuit will name the Foundation,
Jimbo Wales, twenty John Does, ... and everyone who responded to the
complaint, even if though they were completely well-meaning. And since
they were responding to a complaint submitted through an official
channel, their response will be official -- they will be acting as an
agent of the Foundation.
Newbies get bit around here far too often. Biting a newbie with a
legitimate legal complaint through an officially approved channel is a
recipe for disaster.
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sean(a)epoptic.com | unlike the rest of you squares.
| --"The Folk Song Army" by Tom Lehrer
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