On 5/23/07, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
You've had several answers so far and you are responding as if you're
looking for a loophole.
We try to presume the editors are non-idiots of good faith. "Logging
is bad for these reasons. Don't do it." What on earth more do you
need?
Every (rare) time that I've ever seen logs posted on-wiki, they were RVd out
and removed. Basically, I was looking for confirmation that it's a fully
policy on Wikipedia that posting them is a violation, given what just
happened. What if someone had posted the logs of what happened to Jeff? Or
Giano? Would these people be in trouble? What policy did they violate?
If the community will is that you can't post them, given how frequently IRC
related stuff like this seems to come up, it should be simply stated on
Wikipedia then that "Do this, it'll be reverted. Keep doing it, blocked,"
etc. Otherwise, *if* someone did post them, there should obviously be no
repercussions as IRC is a 3rd party service and beyond the scope of
Wikipedia's policies and rules at present. Simply saying "You can't do
that," isn't sufficient. It needs to be grounded in either policy, law, or
the support of the people on-wiki. That's basically it. :)
Regards,
Joe
http://www.joeszilagyi.com