[WikiEN-l] Former Wikimedia employee was a felon.

[joshua.zelinsky at yale.edu]

Quoting Ray Saintonge <saintonge at telus.net>:

> joshua.zelinsky at yale.edu wrote:
>> If it isn't true the Foundation and Doran should sue The Register for
>> libel. If
>> this is wrong it might even constitute sufficiently reckless behavior to be
>> actionable in the United States, and certainly would be libel in 
>> Great Britain
>> where the Register is. However, I doubt even the Register would be this
>> sloppy.
>>
> Suing for libel is one of the sillier ideas to come up in this thread.
> If that were to happen Mrs. Doran would have a much stronger right of
> action than WMF.
>
> The most important question about such a lawsuit is, "What would you
> hope to accomplish with it?"  There would be a lot of legal costs to
> bring the matter to court.  Would The Register even be able to cover
> those costs if we won?  And think of the fun that all of Wikipedia's
> detractors would have while all the dirty laundry was being displayed in
> court and in front of the press.  Maybe a court would come out with a
> declaration that we are right; that would still be an expensive declaration.

That's a good point. Consider my earlier remark withdrawn. In any event, it is
doubly withdrawn because it really looks now like it is the same person.