[WikiEN-l] threats of violence

[George Herbert]

We've had this other "essay" for a while:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Responding_to_threats_of_harm

That was formerly the WP:SUICIDE policy I did, extended by others in several
ways, including adding handling of threats of violence.  It's documenting
the standing best practices without asserting it's a formalized policy, as
two attempts to do a formalized policy via policy process melted down.  I
just did the essay to note what responsible people were doing and why, and
that seemed to be completely controversy free.

Bstone is pushing his proposed policy below for reasons which are only clear
to him.  I asked him why his was preferrable to the existing one (turning it
into a policy if people wanted) and he hasn't really answered that.


-george

On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 6:58 AM, Risker <risker.wp at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 13/03/2008, private musings <thepmaccount at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > there's been some recent work at;
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Threats_Of_Violence
> >
> > anyone see anything there they disagree with?
> >
> > best,
> >
> > PM.
>
>
> Umm, yes.  I find that the language of this proposed policy is too strong,
> and creates a moral imperative that is improper on Wikipedia.  As editors,
> none of us are obligated to do *anything* on Wikipedia, and our
> responsibility ends with things we actually do (edit articles, block
> users,
> comment on a policy, etc.). It is unacceptable to create the sense that
> anyone would have a real-world obligation to report something to
> authorities
> simply because they are Wikipedia readers/editors.
>
> At best, this should be a guideline, and only when the language is watered
> down so that it says things like "encouraged but not obligated" and
> recognises that editors are not *required* to carry out any specific
> actions.
>
> I've posted comments to the proposal as well.
>
> Risker
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-george william herbert
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