Hoi!
We all wait for a Meta ArbCom to be instituted for such cases. No internal ArbCom can be useful when a community has already clearly expressed a point by publishing the material.
This is not about theoretical shades; it's about a definite damage to the wmf trademark. Such damage can be estimated in hundreds of thousands of dollars by any Court (lost grants on the American/European market etc, credibility damage, etc). IMHO we must have this money refunded by those individuals who made the damage, at least in Kyiv and Moscow putting up a lawyer's pool for this purpose is absolutely possible. And we must make it LOUD, so that people understand what's the music.
Communities are free to publish what they wish in principle, and wmf is free to decide whether this is wiki or not. If not then the project cannot use a wikipedia trademark. Apart from that any community is obviously free to publish a fully creationist wiki, a pro-terrorism wiki, a "kill-them-niggers" wiki or whatever else.
Only if they wish to go that way they must do it under their own logo and they must pay for servers, development and bandwidth from their own wallets. They also have to deal with the cops themselves, since some of these POVs are treated as crimes in some nations.
Berto 'd Sera Personagi dl'ann 2006 per l'arvista american-a Time (tanme tuti vojaotri) http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1569514,00.html
-----Original Message----- From: wikipedia-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:wikipedia-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Thomas Dalton Sent: Sunday, April 15, 2007 5:20 PM To: wikipedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikipedia-l] From Romanian Wikipedia, the Nazi Encyclopedia
Francis and John, pls bear in mind that to stand in front of an
Arbitration
Committee you will need to have full translations of the articles AND a permalink to the translated version.
I thought all ArbComs were project specific, so if there is a Romanian ArbCom, I would expect them to speak Romanian. If there isn't one, then I'm not sure there's any route of appeal.
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