QUOTE(Subtle Bee @ Wed 16th June 2010, 1:01am)
It's also amusing watching Giano trying not to accept it, as Coren chases him around his
talkpage. You'd think it was poison, the way they're behaving.
In a way, maybe it is, I think G's right to run. I expect someone's going to try and force him to swallow it, sooner or later.
Well I won't be accepting it for a very good reason. One is not allowed to make legal threats on Wikipedia, to such an extent is that paranoia that the other day someone was stupidly blocked for even using the adjective "libel." Oddly, the project fails to realise that rule does not work in reverse - anyone libelled by Wikipedia may sue - the uploader of the slanderous information and the owners for publishing it - I have no idea what famous people do in their private lives, but how easy it would be to let a slander slip through one's fingers. To even mention this risk on Wikipedia would probably get me blocked for mentioning the "legal" word.
Anyhow, that is just one aspect, albeit the most serious, I have no wish to sanction the edits of others or spend endless hours verifying them, to save the project subsequent legal fees. I also believe, the powers that be will extend this "protection" across into FAs and GAs and any half decent page, the intimations are there already - while that may (and I'm not sure it will) make Wikipedia more credible and reliable in the eyes of the world's press, it will simultaneously create "the encyclopedia not everyone can edit." While that "not everyone" may once have just meant some of the folks here, it now means an awful lot of drive-by people with interesting information to add - and that is against the ethos of the project which I have supported through thick and thin. Finally, I think it will lead to censorship and ultimately an official Wikipedia office stance on many matters - the global aspect and view will be lost. So for those reasons I am having nothing to do with it.
Giacomo
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