Jimmy Wales wrote:
I'm talking to him, there's no need to delete the page right away. Some clever person already listed it on VfD, and I've let "Easter Bradford" know that. I told him that if there's consensus among the editors, the page will be deleted within 7-10 days, and that if there is not such a consensus, I'll step in to make sure that his legal rights are fully protected.
That's entirely consistent with his demands, so I think it's fine.
(I.E. he says that if I don't do something soon, he's going to send me a letter, which will take a couple of days, and then I'll have 7 days after that to delete the stuff.)
Your action, Ed, is a good enough one for now, I think. It takes the page out of general circulation.
So if somebody doesn't like our coverage of them, then they only have to send us an "official take-down notice" [*], and we'll remove the page from general circulation and list it to possibly be deleted?
In that case, Saddam Hussein should contact us. (The real one this time.)
[*] Unless Bradford is suggesting a copyright violation (and that can't be the stuff that ''he'' submitted!), then I don't even know what an "offical take-down notice" is. There's the DMCA procedure for copyright, but Bradford's letter charged defamation (libel/slander).
-- Toby