[Foundation-l] Akahele: Omidyar venturing out

Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijssen at gmail.com
Wed Sep 2 06:02:23 UTC 2009


Hoi,
This is the Foundation-l not the Wikipedia-en list. Applying policies of one
project is rather arbitrary.
Thanks,
       GerardM

2009/9/2 John Vandenberg <jayvdb at gmail.com>

> On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 9:06 AM, Anthony<wikimail at inbox.org> wrote:
> > Once again I have to ask, this time in a different forum...  Is there any
> > procedure to get those vicious personal attacks taken out of the publicly
> > viewable history?
>
> I am gobsmacked that you are asking this here and saying that you
> haven't received answers when you asked in a different forum (which
> forum?).
>
> Removal of vicious personal attacks depends on the nature of them.
>
> If they are potentially libelous, suppression[1] can be used.  In
> other cases, "poor mans oversight"[2] is often used by admins and
> oversight volunteers.
>
> 1. https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Wikipedia:Oversight
> 2.
> https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Wikipedia:Poor_man%27s_oversight
>
> --
> John Vandenberg
>
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