On 6/15/06, Delphine Ménard notafishz@gmail.com wrote:
The big problem with Wikimedia as I see it, is that we are trying to apply something that works to build an encyclopedia (utter democracy, collaborative community decisions) to a world with different rules (legal, financial, etc.), and most of all, rules which can't really be changed with a community decision the way we change spelling or bibliography rules.
As is done now, legal or financial issues trump community decisions. We may not like the fact that [[Johnny Moneybags]] has to get deleted because of his lawyer, but that's life. There is no conflict, because the precedence rules are very clearly defined.
Steve