> Given that a Wikipedia biography is usually the first google hit to come up > for a name, it > doesn't actually strike me as *that* ludicrous. What Wikipedia writes about a > person reaches > more readers today than a New York Times article. As someone else mentioned > recently, > there is a responsibility that comes with that kind of reach. Saying that "we > don't > necessarily stand behind what our article says about you the way a newspaper > publisher > would stand behind an article of theirs" is frankly little consolation to an > aggrieved BLP > subject.
Moreover, some people in Italy are quite easy in sueing: Wikimedia Italy is still on trial (in the person of her president) beacuse someone wrote something "bad" on the owners of a political newspaper. (and they asked us 20 million dollars...). Aubrey _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
