Are you certain that you can libel an entity which isn't living?
-----Original Message----- From: Ian Woollard <[email protected]> To: English Wikipedia <[email protected]> Sent: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 4:32 pm Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Rod Liddle, Spectator, on his Wikipedia article 2009/4/17 Nathan <[email protected]> > Whether the law applies is moot, for a few reasons but including the fact > that it appears he didn't do anything except use Wikipedia as a prop for > his > column. > Well, he also does appear to be libelling the wikipedia, and he's doing it from the UK, which is the easiest country to prove libel; the truth isn't even an absolute defence against libel in the UK. It would be a good idea to check that some or all of the events never actually happened. Note that it could have happened months or even years ago; nobody has checked that far back; and we need to make sure that it wasn't oversighted or something. Nathan > -- -Ian Woollard We live in an imperfectly imperfect world. Life in a perfectly imperfect world would be *much* better. Life in an imperfectly perfect world would be pretty ghastly though. _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
