[WikiEN-l] Legal threats as grounds for automatic termination

[Mark Richards]

Well, I think one way to do this would be to have a
policy that no discussion of lawsuits could take place
on the wiki, that is to say that, once a user has
declared their intention to take legal action
surrounding Wikipedia or its users, the policy would
be to block that user and anyone else who discussed
it, because of the potential for incrimination /
liability etc. Ban them, and direct them to raise the
issue offline with the foundation's legal
representative.
Most companies and non-profits have a similar rule
that their employees and volunteers are not empowered
to discuss legal aspects.
If they drop the case, or it is settled, then allow
them back.
Mark

--- Mark Pellegrini <mapellegrini at comcast.net> wrote:
> I don't know if many of you are aware, but last week
> we had a user in here
>
(http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Special:Contributions&target=Fel
> ix_F._Bruyns) who was on a personal crusade to make
> wikipedia 'family
> friendly' - IE, by censoring our articles. Needless
> to say, it didn't go
> over very well. Long story short, he ended up
> threatening to sue several
> contributors -
>
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=User_talk:Raul654&diff=3853204&oldid=3852747,
>
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=User_talk:Moriori&diff=3853177&oldid=3852828
> 
> I started digging through our policies, and found
> this dusty relic:
>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:No_legal_threats
> 
> At this point, it's only a proposal. Also, it
> doesn't actually *do*
> anything. I'd like to suggest adopting a
> terminate-on-site rule -- you make
> a legal threat, and you're automatically banned. I'd
> like to know what
> others here think.
> 
> --Mark
> 
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