[WikiEN-l] From the moderators of the Wikipedia Review

[Daniel R. Tobias]

On 31 May 2007 at 13:39:41 +0100, doc <doc.wikipedia at ntlworld.com> 
wrote:

> How the hell did this piece of trolling get though? Moderators wake up!

Trolling it may be, but it seems to be a troll with a point... it 
does in fact seem to be true that, to prove that one has been libeled 
by a site that engages in "outing" an editor and stating alleged 
personal facts about him/her, one would have to "out" oneself, in 
order to prove that they're actually the named individual (and have 
standing for a suit), as well as to prove the falsity of whichever 
"facts" are being alleged to be libelous.  If, instead, one were to 
be suing under privacy-invasion laws instead of libel laws, different 
standards would apply, but wouldn't you still have to prove your 
identity, and file the suit under your real name?

There are some paradoxical complications to using the legal system to 
object to such activity, which were pointed out in the form of a 
request, which only became trolling because it was made rhetorically 
to a respondent who has no likely prospect of following it, and this 
fact was known to the writer in advance.

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