[Wikimedia-l] COI versus OUTING

[David Gerard]

On 21 January 2013 13:09, James Heilman <jmh649 at gmail.com> wrote:

> What if this long standing editor decided to either hand the story over to
> the press or write something up for publication in a peer review journal as
> said editor does not stand for intimidation easily? And this long standing
> editor believes that the world / patients might be better off if
> this behavior become more widely known. How would the Wikimedia community
> apply the above two policies / guidelines (WP:COI and WP:OUTING)?


The long-standing Internet practice is to publish threatening email as
being in the public interest. Wikipedia isn't the platform for that.

Given the indeterminate parameters of the original question, it would
depend if the editor in question felt that this was sufficiently in
the general public interest.

The (not-so-) hypothetical editor in question could then reasonably
leave it to other less-pissed-off editors to calmly sort out what
should be done in terms of coverage on the wiki itself.

This is of course all (not-so-) hypothetical.


- d.