2009/9/17 WereSpielChequers <[email protected]>: > I'm more concerned about what happens when something is posted to our > site that is unfair, inaccurate and full of malice. Presumably > Wikimedia in the US is the publisher, But what happens if you mark an > article as patrolled or an edit as flagged without checking that an > earlier revision elsewhere in the article has excess bile? > Can we lobby to make sure that we as volunteers are protected in those > circumstances providing we are editing in good faith?
Possibly. That said, I'm afraid I sometimes specifically avoid editing certain biographies of UK-based living people known for fiercely defending their reputations in court. (FWIW, when someone calls up saying "lawsuit", what they almost always mean in practice is "I want someone to give a hoot." The fact that we do in fact give a hoot - and take living bios seriously - does a lot in practice to make people happier.) - d. _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list [email protected] http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
