QUOTE(wikiwhistle @ Sun 23rd March 2008, 4:28pm)
QUOTE(taiwopanfob @ Sun 23rd March 2008, 4:21pm)
Fine, then. Dig deep into that pocket of yours and indemnify me. Make editing biological articles at Wikipedia completely safe for me and I'll give your request some consideration.
I'm not quite sure what you're saying, but PM me and I can remove anything that's obviously 'wrong' to anyone looking at it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IndemnifyQUOTE
If you were to edit, what do you think might happen to you that's so 'dangerous'?
I have no idea, and that's the worst thing of all. But being directly associated with page in any way -- even vicariously, as you suggest -- is a danger that doesn't exist if I just sit back from a distance and watch the incoming legal ICBM's land.
Ask me to assume a risk, and I say "What's in it for me?" Most anyone with something to lose (~30 years of their life), and you'll get the same answer.
To put this short: I don't trust you. You personally, and you collectively. Neither do your BLP victims. Address this issue and almost all other problems will disappear.
QUOTE
As to judges expecting a site to be managed- wikipedia would get a slap on the wrist, maybe a fine, it's the editor who inserted the material who'd take the flak.
Jimbo has already stated, point-blank, that ultimate responsibility for content lies with the editor. To wit: the WMF is not indemnifying you. The question before you is simple: what is your current lot in life, what is your expected future? If you are a hand-to-mouth person living in a hovel, using the internet at the library, and expect no change in this state for the remainder of your life, then BLP patrol is neither here nor there, as you can't squeeze blood from a turnip.