[Foundation-l] Foundation Discretion Regarding Personnel

Dan Rosenthal swatjester at gmail.com
Sat Dec 15 14:53:42 UTC 2007


That's hardly legal research. If the Wikinews volunteers are that good  
at real legal research they can help me write my next memo.

-Dan
On Dec 15, 2007, at 9:31 AM, Thomas Dalton wrote:

>>> As soon as Mike was asked that question the foundation
>>> should have done their own investigation and then broken the  
>>> story. It
>>> would have taken a couple of hours to get enough information  
>>> together
>>> to spoil The Register's scoop.
>>
>> Criminal background checks take at least a day, and possibly a few
>> days, to do properly, at least in the United States.  The allegations
>> made in the Register story would have taken significant time for us  
>> to
>> confirm or refute.
>
> So the Wikinews volunteers are better at legal research than the WMF
> General Counsel? Great...
>
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