[WikiEN-l] HD DVD key mess - OFFICE/Foundation?

[Phil Sandifer]

On May 2, 2007, at 11:35 AM, Anthony wrote:

> Can an employee of the foundation please speak up and clarify whether
> or not we are allowed to publish this key?

Please don't do this, employee of the Foundation.

David is pretty much right here - the issue right now isn't legality,  
it's notability. We're not a newspaper. Wait a month, see how this  
plays out, and then we can write the right article. Any article  
written right now isn't an encyclopedia article, it's a piece of  
Internet activism about the right to publish the string "09 F9 11 02  
9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0." Which, as that last sentence  
demonstrates, I'm all for.

But Wikipedia isn't the place to do that now.

If the Foundation steps in, the message becomes "the issue here is a  
legal one," and an important editorial judgment is erased.

-Phil