Lfaraone, you're an English Wikipedia arbitrator only as far as I know. What gives you the authority or expertise to make assertions about the legal implications of WMF terms of use violations?
Are you a WMF employee? Are you a lawyer? Trillium Corsage 20.01.2015, 04:19, "LFaraone" <wikipe...@luke.wf>: > MZMcBride <z <at> mzmcbride.com> writes: >> I'm not sure if wiki bans strictly fall within security >> theater, but it seems fairly clear that these bans are for show and not >> much else. It's the Internet, after all, and anyone can edit. Under the >> current scheme, the best we can do is try to revert and prevent bad >> behavior alone. Attempting to ban individuals has proved impossible. > > Users banned by the Wikimedia Foundation who continue to edit in violation of > their ban may be placing themselves in possibly legally unfortunate > situations, per ToU §12[1]. > > A Foundation ban would almost certainly be viewed as a stronger demand to > desist than bans imposed by the community. > > Regardless, the WMF is often better-positioned than the community to > investigate certain types of issues, and as such it would make sense that > they would be the entity to take the aforementioned action. The logic > presented above, when taken to its logical conclusion, seems to be "why > bother banning ANYONE, ever, since they can just sock?". > > [1]: https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Terms_of_Use#12._Termination > > -- LFaraone > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
