[WikiEN-l] [WikiEn-l] Another BLP deletion... Why?

[Philip Sandifer]

On Apr 21, 2008, at 4:02 PM, geni wrote:

> On 21/04/2008, Fred Bauder <fredbaud at fairpoint.net> wrote:
>> I can certainly understand. We have about 200 folks who want to keep
>> Giovanno di Stefano, a monstrosity that is entirely uncontrollable. I
>> wonder how many of them are willing to spend hours, week, months,  
>> years
>> monitoring it.
>
>
> What about researching it?
>
> In any case wikipedia currently hosts at least one article that would
> appear to be in contempt of a UK court ruling which some might feel is
> more of a concern.

The community should not be deciding legal issues like this. If  
something is clear-cut in its legal issues to a non-lawyer (copyvio,  
obvious libel) then it should be dealt with on a community level. If  
"some might feel" something the community has no business making these  
decisions.

-Phil