[Foundation-l] Wikinews is giving out press credentials

[Delirium]

Daniel Mayer wrote:

>>Nowhere does it say that we are credentialed by the board of the WMF.
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>Nor should it ever. But the implication is that Wikinews itself credentialed
>these people. Wikinews is not an organization in any legal sense and thus can't
>grant anything. The Wikinews community, however, can be - if the board agrees -
>to be its agent in the selection of trusted users for accreditation. 
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Well, Wikinews is a community, and communities can grant whatever 
invented titles they want to grant.  The term "credential" has no legal 
meaning in general.

I much dislike these constant gratuitous attempts to grab power from the 
community, especially through baseless legal threats.

-Mark