[WikiEN-l] Saucy Sources, reliable and re : libel.

[William Pietri]

joshua.zelinsky at yale.edu wrote:
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:William_Pietri/Legaldispute
>>>       
> [...] William Pietri's proposed template doesn't address what 
> country or standard is precisely in use. And Pietri's
> template doesn't even address that the issue is libel.

For what it is worth, that is entirely intentional. If somebody is 
threatening to sue us, I wanted to avoid inflaming the situation by 
saying anything that might upset them further. I also didn't want 
something that would hint at the details of the problem, because many 
ways of stating the details might be equally disputed by somebody involved.

Really, the only goal is to let readers know that they are not receiving 
a good article, as with {{Unbalanced}} or {{POV}}. And like those 
warnings, we don't need to say which way we think the article might be 
bent. We just have to let readers know that they're not getting what 
they get out of most of our articles: a quick, balanced take on some 
topic of interest to them.

William


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