[Foundation-l] A PC instead of a VC

Mon Apr 7 14:49:50 UTC 2008

I don't think there is a BLP project - but there is a noticeboard,
frequented
by editors and admins alert for violations and other potential problems. I
agree with Dan that there are views that raise potential legal problems even
if yours do not. Since there is no unified vision or general consensus of
how
the VC would be constituted or what it would do... It makes sense to test
any visions against Mike's view of what crosses a legal line.

Nathan

On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 10:37 AM, Andrew Whitworth <wknight8111 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 10:17 AM,  <daniwo59 at aol.com> wrote:
> >  GerardM's proposal states: "This council will be about the projects and
>  will
> >  deal what makes the projects function better." As such: 1) would
> someone
> >  angry with a project be able to give notice to this PC; and 2) is this
> PC, by
> >  its very nature, somehow be construed as involved in the creation and
> >  development of content?
>
> I've been thinking about the council as a sort of gigantic,
> cross-project "wikiproject" of sorts. A  wikiproject on wikipedia
> takes self-responsibility in creating and managing content, responding
> to complaints about that content, etc. I'm not a Wikipedian, so I
> don't know all the details. However, I would like to know how
> wikiproject "biographies of living persons" (or the closest analog, if
> such a project does not exist by that name) handles the complaints and
> notices that it must receive on a regular basis? I assume that if you
> send a notice to a wikiproject or to the PVC, or even to OTRS, those
> notices will be routed to an appropriate destination.
>
> >  I am sure someone more legally minded can formulate even better
> questions.
> >  Perhaps the answer is No, as you suggest. But it sure would suck to
> find out
> >  that the speculation was wrong while in the middle of a court case.
>
> This is true, and I agree that it would be good to hear from an expert
> on the matter before doing anything. However, if we procede under a
> different set of limiting assumptions, a lot of legal problems that
> people have been having with this whole proposal seem to disappear
> into thin air. Perhaps, for the sake of argument, we should all be
> making some of these limiting assumptions right about now.
>
> --Andrew Whitworth
>
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