[WikiEN-l] Getting hammered in a tv interview is not fun

[Bryan Derksen]

doc wrote:
> This is ridiculous. I did not suggest 'do no harm' was to be a pillar of 
> wikipedia. I merely
> suggested that when we are considering policies for improving wikipedia, 
> that simply
> looking to what might get us sued is insufficient. We should also 
> consider organising
> ourselves to minimise the damage we may do to individuals by having POV 
> articles, attack pages, or allowing malicious people to post any crap 
> about them. Here we have a moral as well as a legal responsibility to 
> minimise harm. We are human beings, we don't need 
> [[Wikipedia:TheSermonOnTheMount]] to tell us that thinking about others, 
> and the impact our project has on them, is a Good Thing.

But this is all already accounted for in our existing set of policies
and guidelines. POV articles, attack pages, and allowing malicious
people to post any crap they want are already "against the rules", we
don't need to make things more complex by adding in additional
considerations.