On 28/01/2008, Casey Brown <cbrown1023.ml(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I agree with Cary here. A local chapter should take
the same stance
as I know WMUK and FR do: they should inform the person who sent that
letter that they do not have an official handle on the content of the
wiki,
The said that they already did that, but the sysops still keep the
older versions deleted. They say that they do it to protect their
editors from being sued, but I believe that this is an over-reaction
and a very dangerous precedent.
... and that they should
contact the actual Wikimedia Foundation by mail if there is a legal
request to do with something like BLP.
Exactly - and AFAIK they didn't do it yet.
Let me reiterate - I don't have anything against the sysops of
he.wiki, and i sincerely hope that the foundation can assist them. I
believe that it is the first time that he.wiki is in such an acute BLP
situation, but i might be wrong. In any case, it's never too late.
That said, having looked at the current Hebrew article, and being familiar
with the most of the incidents, the article is highly POV. That is to say, it
may be sourced, but it is still POV. For any Israelis reading this list, Shach
and Ovadiah Yoseph made no less outrageous comments in their time, but their
articles seem to be far more balanced.
On 28/01/2008, daniwo59(a)aol.com <daniwo59(a)aol.com> wrote:
That said, having looked at the current Hebrew
article, and being familiar
with the most of the incidents, the article is highly POV. That is to say, it
may be sourced, but it is still POV. For any Israelis reading this list, Shach
and Ovadiah Yoseph made no less outrageous comments in their time, but their
articles seem to be far more balanced.
The current article also suffers from all the brouhaha around it. It
has been edited by several new accounts, which are most probably
operated by experienced users whose reaction to the situation is part
encyclopedic, part tongue-in-cheek. Certainly not the right way to
handle it.
Maybe currently it is the right thing to protect it as WP:OFFICE
afterall, but the problem is that WP:OFFICE is not a written policy in
he.wiki. I can volunteer to translate it, but i can't provide the
legal backing and again - i hope that the foundation can assist here.
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