True. I believe that in general, if you want to use the 'truth' defence in defamation court, you have to prove you took reasonable measures to ensure that it was true... assuming 'truth' is even a defence, which it sometimes is not.
In any case, the door is wide open should anyone try it, especially to a non-Wikipaedian.
On 26/09/2007, Nick heligolandwp@googlemail.com wrote:
We can't prove it's happened, but more importantly, we can't prove it hasn't happened.
On 25/09/2007, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
So, if Mr. Y were to desire to harm the reputation of Mr. X, all Y would have to do is create an account on WP is X's name, and proceed to create as drastic an incident as possible... make sure to get it all over AN/I, RfC and RfAr, and end up with a banned user notice on User:X.
Do you know of any time when that has actually happened?