[WikiEN-l] London calling, etc.

[Avi]

It seems pretty well done, George. I took the liberty of highlighting what I
think one of the key points regarding not trying to figure out if it is a
hoax. The police, as a rule, want to hear of this, and we should err on the
side of protecting human life.

--Avi

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---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: "George Herbert" <george.herbert at gmail.com>
> To: "English Wikipedia" <wikien-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
> Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2007 17:37:14 -0700
> Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] London calling, etc.



There had been some attempts to make a policy document on "what to do"
> in response to apparently suicidal Wikipedians on-wiki, which failed
> to gain consensus for various reasons.  After a brief discussion on
> another mailing list this week, I went and posted an essay describing
> how we've responded to prior incidents and why.  This will hopefully
> serve to some extent as a guide for future incidents.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Potentially_Suicidal_Users
>
> ..also linked as [[WP:SUICIDE]], which previously went to one of the
> failed policy proposals.
>
> Please let me know if I have misstated prior response standards in any
> significant way.
>
> Thanks.
>
>
> --
> -george william herbert
> george.herbert at gmail.com
>