[Foundation-l] No rights to participate

Thomas Morton morton.thomas at googlemail.com
Sun May 22 15:23:26 UTC 2011


Yes. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:FREESPEECH

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:FREESPEECH>Obviously you have your
normal legal rights (i.e. if someone does something illegal, then it is a
courts matter). But the idea that "I have a right to edit Wikipedia" or "You
have no right to do that" is incorrect, because WP is a private website.

If the consensus of the community is to ban you from the project, even under
spurious grounds, there is nothing to stop them from doing so.

Tom

On 22 May 2011 16:19, Pronoein <pronoein at gmail.com> wrote:

> Le 22/05/2011 10:54, Thomas Morton a écrit :
> > we have no
> > "rights" to participate in Wikipedia.
> Regardless of the debate from where it comes, is this an accurate
> decription of the rules and policies of Wikipedia?
>
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