[WikiEN-l] Edit Wikipedia Week is coming. How not to bite the n00bs?

[Monahon, Peter B.]

== Material Harm ==

"Material harm" from a web page?  Interesting postulation!

I looked up Google [define:harm] at
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&newwindow=1&safe=off&q=define
%3Aharm but Google [define:material harm] got no responses.

Definitions of harm on the Web:

injury: any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident
or fracture etc. 
damage: the occurrence of a change for the worse 
cause or do harm to; "These pills won't harm your system" 
damage: the act of damaging something or someone 
http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn 

Harm is physical or psychological/emotional damage or injury to a
person, animal, or other entity. 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harm 

represents physical injury, death, ill health, property and equipment
damage and any form of appropriate loss.
http://www.astro.cardiff.ac.uk/safety/ 

Undesired consequences of an action or event. It can apply equally to
people, the environment, or property. For instance, the German (DIN VDE
3100-2) standard states that, "Harm is any detriment caused by a
violation of a legal interest, as a result of a certain technical
process or state".
http://www.fz-juelich.de/inb/inb-mut//vdi/vdi_bericht_e/glossar_e.html 

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I'm presuming that "material harm" just reinforces the belief that a web
page can cause harm to someone, especially a web page containing spam,
vandalism or some other supposed inaccuracy or inappropriate or
mismatched content that has not been cleaned up yet (though the visitor
can clean it up - hey, it's a wiki - EDIT EVERY PAGE!) or, worse,
outright poorly written content, oh my!

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