[WikiEN-l] Out of process deletions

[Fred Bauder]

>-----Original Message-----
>From: James Farrar [mailto:james.farrar at gmail.com]
>Sent: Monday, March 26, 2007 07:37 PM
>To: 'English Wikipedia'
>Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Out of process deletions
>
>On 27/03/07, Ron Ritzman <ritzman at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 3/26/07, Steve Bennett <stevagewp at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > > Also, I have a hard time imagining a situation where it is absolutely
>> > > impossible to purge POV from the bio of an otherwise notable person
>> > > without nuking the article.
>>
>> > But is that the point? If a credible legal threat it made, we might as
>> > well just delete the thing first and ask questions later. No single
>> > article is worth getting sued over - whether the Foundation would win
>> > the case or not.
>>
>> Such cases are why we unfortunately have the  necessary evil that is WP:OFFICE.
>
>Indeed.
>
>And in the absence of an Office intervention, surely an admin speedily
>deleting an article that has already failed an AfD is acting beyond
>his powers?

No, any user may remove or delete libelous or malicious material without limit.

Fred