[WikiEN-l] Unblock request - Critique on administrators is no personal attack

[Delirium]

Raphael Wegmann wrote:
> geni wrote:
>   
>> On 5/28/06, Raphael Wegmann <raphael at psi.co.at> wrote:
>>     
>>> Laws in the country, where I live, limit free speech.
>>> For example it is forbidden to deny the Holocaust.
>>>
>>>       
>> And if that prevented us from writing about holocaust denial then we
>> would have a problem in your country.
>>
>>     
>
> IANAL, but I don't think that this law would prevent me
> from writing *about* Holocaust denial, as long as it is
> clear, that I don't deny the Holocaust myself.
>
> The same should IMHO apply to the J-P cartoon article:
>
> There's no problem to write *about* insulting cartoons
> and the controversy following it, as long as we distance
> ourself from the publishing of the cartoons by i.e.
> moving them one click away instead of re-publishing them
> as we do right now.
>   

Indeed the law doesn't prevent us from doing so, which is why it isn't a 
problem for Wikipedia (whether it's a good law or not is another matter, 
but one that doesn't affect us).  But your suggestion of not publishing 
the J-P cartoons isn't analogous to what we do with holocaust denial at 
all.  Our articles *do* republish statements, cartoons, posters, and 
other material denying that the Holocaust occurred, as part of a general 
encyclopedic treatment of the subject.  The article would be quite a bit 
worse if we were prohibited from republishing any material that could be 
considered Holocaust-denying, and had to just talk about it without 
showing any examples.  I would say the same goes of the J-P cartoons.

-Mark