[Foundation-l] No rights to participate

Pronoein pronoein at gmail.com
Sun May 22 16:30:10 UTC 2011


Thank you for your answer.
I discovered that Wikipedia was not a bureaucracy[1] in the link you
gave, that's encouraging. :)

[1]:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:NOT#Wikipedia_is_not_a_bureaucracy


Le 22/05/2011 12:23, Thomas Morton a écrit :
> 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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