[WikiEN-l] Jeff Merkey threatens to sue Wikipedia and Wikipedians

[Christiano Moreschi]

This is all horseshit. Merkey is mad.

Some of his previous lunacy includes this:

"== Right to Edit Policy ==

This policy states that Wikipedia is a free environment for anyone to edit, in compliance with the Wikimedia Foundation Statements and Representations made to the General Public.  If you are approached by any group, admin, or body demanding you participate in cumbersome procedures, RFCs, ARBCOM Proceedings, demand you join their group, or if you are subjected to threats from users of Wikipedia to block you or remove your right to edit, or demand any ''' ''consideration'' ''' of any kind from you in exchange for your ''' ''right to edit'' ''', they are violating Wikimedia Foundation Promises stated to the General Public in exchange for your work here and its representations to the General Public in exchange for financial support from contributors."

He's supposed to be intelligent, so how he keeps on confusing a right with an ability is beyond me.

CM

Odi profanum vulgus et arceo.

> From: dan at tobias.name
> To: wikien-l at lists.wikimedia.org
> Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 08:52:47 -0400
> Subject: [WikiEN-l] Jeff Merkey threatens to sue Wikipedia and Wikipedians
> 
> It's right here in the BADSITE:
> 
> http://wikipediareview.com/index.php?showtopic=20784
> 
> Merkey says he's planning on suing the Wikimedia Foundation, the 
> individual members of ArbCom, and possibly other admins or editors.  
> He's claiming that he has some kind of agreement (with the 
> Foundation? with Jimbo?  it's unclear) that prevents anybody 
> connected with Wikipedia from banning him, so that his banning was a 
> contractual violation; he also claims that banning him from Wikipedia 
> was an act of stalking or harassment.
> 
> Is there the slightest bit of truth to his claims of the existence of 
> a "settlement agreement" between him and Wikimedia, or is this just 
> entirely a pile of manure?
> 
> 
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