[WikiEN-l] Don't remove a WP:OFFICE tag put there by Danny

[Delirium]

Steve Bennett wrote:

>On 3/11/06, Delirium <delirium at hackish.org> wrote:
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>>What we should do, of course, is what we always do.  Someone should tell
>>us *what* the complaints are, and we should fix the article.  Blanking
>>and deleting the article should only be the done in the most extreme
>>cases where there is absolutely nothing useful or salvageable about it.
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>That's not a reasonable request. The Jack Thomspon email is pretty
>instructive. Seems like the story goes like this:
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>1. Wikipedia community writes an article on famous person X
>2. X's lawyers write to the Wikimedia foundation, citing vague
>"errors" and "defamatory material", and threatening to sue the arse
>off it if the article is not deleted instantly.
>3. Wikimedia foundation is supposed to cite the specific errors in the
>article, so they can be edited out, and thus play chicken with X's
>lawyers?
>
>The point is: you delete the page, the problem goes away. Any other
>solution, and the problem - X's lawyers - is still there. You can
>argue that your page is NPOV and not defamatory. But you won't be
>doing it in court - the Wikimedia Foundation will be. So, from that
>point of view, it's totally their call what to do about it.
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Jimmy claims that legal threats are rarely the issue, though, so this 
line of reasoning doesn't apply.  If legal issues are involved, I'm 
willing to give more deference, at least long enough for the Foundation 
to be able to investigate further.  But that doesn't seem to be the 
problem here.

-Mark