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

[Phil Sandifer]

I suppose it would just be too easy to note that threats of legal  
action are already listed in "No personal attacks," wouldn't it?

-Snowspinner

On Jun 15, 2004, at 10:41 AM, Mark Richards wrote:

> 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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