[WikiEN-l] ArbCom Legislation

[Ian Woollard]

2008/6/22  <WJhonson at aol.com>:
> "Naming" someone is not harassment, it is reporting.  If you think it  is,
> name one case, any case at all, where this theory has been successful in a
> finalized court proceeding.  In the US.

I'm not sure it would apply to the Star Wars Boy, but the libel laws
in Britain are quite interesting though, with truth not necessarily
being a perfect defence. 'Mere' reporting *has* been construed as
libel. And there's privacy laws in other countries, I think France
also. The servers are in the US, but not necessarily all assets are.

The bottom line is that anybody who thinks that this guys name needs
to go in the article for 'NPOV' reasons needs to look at why that is.
Ultimately it's similar logic to a lynching- if everybody else is
punching the guy, is the neutral point of view necessarily more
punching?

-- 
-Ian Woollard

We live in an imperfectly imperfect world. If we lived in a perfectly
imperfect world things would be a lot better.