[Wikimediaindia-l] The first legal threaten against Wikipedia India !

[Gautam John]

Hi Tinu:

Thanks for posting this - yes, legal counsel and a risk assessment is
something we are actively looking at doing - a question, would the community
know if this has ever happened or threatened to happen earlier or is this
the first example?

Thank you.

Best,

Gautam
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On 26 February 2011 08:44, CherianTinu Abraham <tinucherian at gmail.com>wrote:

> Here you go ! The first legal threaten against Wikipedia India !
>
> To set the context to those who were not  reading the thread of
> WikimediaIndia facebook page,
>
> Basavaraj Itnal [1] is a senior journalist from Bangalore. He is in
> a campaign against an alleged land-grabbing and scam by a popular mall owner
> in Bangalore. He did write articles on this in the publications he is
> associated with. He even added information earlier to Wikipedia article of
> Garuda Mall [2] and apparently was blocked once ( by an Indian admin with a
> pseudo name ? ) .
> He also attended one of the Bangalore Wiki-meetups recently. After that he
> shifted to focus to fight his POV to Wikimedia India Facebook recently. [3]
> and also pushing it on the article [4] . Of late he is threatening to sue
> Wikipedia and Wikimedia admins. Knowing his aggressiveness, i don't think he
> can be taken lightly.
>
> I am not sure whether he is intending to sue against the Wikimedia
> Foundation, ( office in India ) or India chapter or individuals from India
> who are admins ( OMG, that includes me :) )
>
> Time for a legal contact in India ?
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Regards
> Tinu Cherian
>
> P.S.I couldn't find the contact mail id of Geoffrey Brigham, the new legal
> counsel of the Foundation.
>
> [1] http://twitter.com/#!/basavarajitnal
> http://www.linkedin.com/pub/basavaraj-itnal/23/a9b/4b9
> http://www.facebook.com/people/Basavaraj-Itnal/100000540087375
> [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garuda_Mall
> [3] http://www.facebook.com/WikimediaIndia?sk=wall&filter=12
> [4]
> http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Garuda_Mall&action=historysubmit&diff=410530901&oldid=410529958
>
>
> On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 12:24 AM, Facebook <
> update+mh17p3hd at facebookmail.com> wrote:
>
>>  facebook<http://www.facebook.com/n/?WikimediaIndia%2Fposts%2F184893818213619&mid=3d1f826G29075287G520915G37&bcode=Qp9JF&n_m=tinucherian%40gmail.com>
>> Hi Cherian,
>> Basavaraj Itnal commented on WikimediaIndia's wall post.
>> Basavaraj wrote: "anyways, while i respect what you guys are doing, i am
>> actively looking for a legal recourse to make wiki admins accountable and
>> available to legal action. as for Garuda issue is concerned after doubting
>> the veracity of my documents without verifying them and without again cross
>> checking with the govt, they just made a small correction saying Garuda Mall
>> land is owned by bruhat bengaluru mahanagar palike. :)"
>>
>> See the comment thread<http://www.facebook.com/n/?WikimediaIndia%2Fposts%2F184893818213619&mid=3d1f826G29075287G520915G37&bcode=Qp9JF&n_m=tinucherian%40gmail.com>
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