[WikiEN-l] Wikipedia legal threat (forwarded email now sent)

Thu Sep 29 05:42:16 UTC 2005

On 9/28/05, TGGG85 at aol.com <TGGG85 at aol.com> wrote:
>
> This sounds like a personality conflict between two Wikipedians who can't
> communicate their feelings in a friendly manner. I don't know the parties
> involved BUT I know for SURE that the Wikipedia community as a whole is
> blameless. I
> suggest that the individuals settle their differences privately and leave
> the
> rest of us OUT of it.

Actually, have a look at AN/I - Chris Hillman said he gave up and asked that
the article be reverted to Sarfatti's favoured version and left so - which,
of course, the community would not do. More to the point, while Hillman
wrote the version that offended Sarfatti, many other editors were reverting
to Hillman's version.

More to the point, if editors are threatened with lawsuits for making good
faith attempts to write NPOV articles (which, given community support, it
would appear that Hillman did) we can't just leave them out on their own.
That would be great for community spirit - when someone threatens you were
abandon you? Not a good precident.

Ian