[WikiEN-l] For your consternation...

[Fred Bauder]

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Andrew Gray [mailto:shimgray at gmail.com]
>Sent: Wednesday, February 7, 2007 02:23 PM
>To: 'English Wikipedia'
>Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] For your consternation...
>
>On 07/02/07, George Herbert <george.herbert at gmail.com> wrote:
>> For your consideration and consternation...
>>
>> Is it:
>> A) Ilegal
>> B) Immoral
>> C) Fattening
>>
>> ...if US Department of Energy and National Nuclear Security Agency
>> staffers remove an image repeatedly from a Wikipedia article, which
>> came from a Department of Energy press photo, showing the Q clearance
>> badge of the now-former head of NNSA.  The claimed reason for deletion
>> is that it's illegal to show the badge, despite the fact that Linton
>> Brooks wore it in public all the time, there are numerous public press
>> photos of it, and that the image in question came from an unclassified
>> government press image freely released (though, they subsequently
>> erased that section of the image with photoshop)...
>>
>> Several of us have asked the people removing it to identify themselves
>> and explain whether the image was subsequently classified or tell us
>> what law prevents us from legally hosting it, if there is one, and
>> have heard nothing back.  All they are doing is deleting it over and
>> over again.
>
>I am reminded of a nice chap, editing from somewhere deep in *.mil,
>who kept trying to remove a map of the Green Zone, citing "operational
>security" reasons. The fact that we had obtained the map from the
>website of a US Congressman didn't seem to faze him...
>
>(On examination, that claim boiled down to the user not understanding
>that a rule which said *he* couldn't talk about something didn't have
>to apply to everyone else)
>
>In this case... if there is a legal issue, please direct him to Brad
>and ask him to cite chapter and verse.
>
>-- 
>- Andrew Gray
>  andrew.gray at dunelm.org.uk

Done

Fred