Kelly Martin wrote:
I have a
great deal of respect for the need of the Foundation to take
appropriate measures to protect its very real legal interests in the
face of potential litigation. I tend to believe that the Foundation
is, at its core, more interested in being "an encyclopedia being
written by a community" than a "community which is writing an
encyclopedia". I'm not so convinced that the same is true of the
Wikipedia community as a whole.
And, yes, I am somewhat more in the know on this issue than you are,
but that doesn't mean I have all of the pieces of the puzzle either.
All rhetoric aside, not all admins on Wikipedia are equal; some of us
are clearly more bothered about this than others.
Welcome to Animal Farm.
At this point we have nothing more than a guess that there is potential
litigation. That's a great foundation for sand castles. Has anyone
ever heard of verifiability?
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