On 28/01/2008, Ronald Chmara <ron(a)opus1.com> wrote:
If Yitzhak *wants* to be litigious, I suggest he look
at the en
[[WP:SCN]] team, where the crew works in the constant threat of
litigation.
That's exactly the reason that it bothers me so much: I happen to be
one of the main editors of the Hebrew article about Scientology. I
received praise for it from sources that have nothing to do with
Wikipedia.
I also received personal communication from Israeli Scientology
employees. They weren't direct legal threats, but they included
requests to change the article according to their sources. I politely
refused, explaining that i cite sources which i believe to be fair,
independent and correct (a lot of Roy Wallis and very little
xenu.net,
if you know what i mean.)
Now Scientology Israel will see that Amnon Yitzhak's lawyers succeeded
very easily at removing an article with all its older versions, just
by sending a _very_ vague letter. So they can do the same, flushing
down the drain my integrity and the years that i invested in
researching this subject.
Put another way, we let the crazies hoist themselves
with their own
petards.
Less work for us that way.
I agree about the PR value - but do we still have to delete the
article and give up our integrity after just one feeble letter?
--
Amir Elisha Aharoni
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Hebrew -
http://haharoni.wordpress.com
"We're living in pieces,
I want to live in peace." - T. Moore