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