On 3/29/06, Steve Bennett stevage@gmail.com wrote:
Dunno about you, but being threatened by a guy who's proud that he cost the other side $1,000,000 in a lawsuit that he lost works very well with me.
Then you're easily intimidated, because the first thing anyone who is seriously trying to threaten you with legal action will do is pull $ amounts out of their rear end. I think the word "terrorist" should generally be avoided for totally different reasons: It is ambiguous and has strong emotional connotations. We can use it if we attribute it to someone else, but for Wikipedia to adopt such a term as fact is always problematic. There are good reasons it is listed on [[Wikipedia:Words to avoid]].
This is not a matter of giving in to Horsley's threats, it's a matter of rigorously applying policy, which we should always do when facing such threats. Many will not see the difference, but it will become more visible as the article evolves over the years.
Erik