[WikiEN-l] Defamation policy

[Anthony]

On 8/18/06, Sarah <slimvirgin at gmail.com> wrote:
> The requirement not to move potentially defamatory material to talk
> pages is because they're cached by Google (and even if they weren't,
> they're read by a lot of people), and the point is to stop the spread
> of the defamation. [snip]
>
> There are lots of ways material can be discussed with directly
> referring to it, and people can ask for a reliable source for all
> edits without specifying the particular edit that's caused the
> problem. We don't need to say: "Do you have a source for the claim
> that Professor Sir John Doe was seen with a woman not his wife in a
> nightclub last night?"
>
I'm sorry, but I don't see how that question is "potentially
defamatory", assuming that someone actually did make such a claim.

Anthony