legal paranoia (was Re: [WikiEN-l] Encarta article list)

Fri Sep 9 11:58:50 UTC 2005

Many of the lists were merged:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Missing_encyclopedic_articles/Hot

-DF

--- Daniel Mayer  <maveric149 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> --- Jimmy Wales <jwales at wikia.com> wrote:
> 
> > Daniel Mayer wrote:
> > > Bullocks. This is legal paranoia.
> >
> > I'm sorry, but acting carefully on advice from 
actual lawyers is not
> > legal paranoia.
> 
> A legal team who was split on the issue. I
> suggested a very simple way to avoid much of the 
> potential issues; combine the lists.  Thus 
> my ‘bullocks’ statement in regards to deletion 
> instead of merger. Deletion followed by nothing 
> (what was done) is legal paranoia, while merger is 
> a prudent compromise.
> 
> > Beyond that, of course I agree with the current
concept of creating a
> > generally researched list from many sources of
topics which we don't
> > have but should.
> 
> My point all along (IIRC, the first comment on the 
> Encarta list talk page was from me raising the 
> merger issue).
> 
> -- mav