[Foundation-l] Wikipedia:Office Actions

Fri Apr 27 05:31:20 UTC 2007

Hoi,
I hope you are being silly. As long as THIS Foundation is here and, as long
as it is THIS Foundation who deals with a legal threat you will have to deal
with THIS Foundation. The philosophical possibility that you have to deal
with a later organisation later does not deal with the reality of today.

When you disagree, you disagree with the whole notion of office actions,
when you disagree because of a philosophical reason, you are producing noise
distracting from what is the issue.

It has to be clear that for as long as Wikipedia is a Wikimedia Foundation
project, Office actions are compulsory. The removal of content is in essence
a necessary step in a process. When this process has run its course, the
same data may be back depending on the outcome of the legal process.

Thanks,
    GerardM

On 4/27/07, Delirium <delirium at hackish.org> wrote:
>
> Brad Patrick wrote:
> > The answer to someone who is suspicious of an action is ASSUME
> > GOOD FAITH *precisely* because it is the Foundation acting.  Volunteers
> come
> > and go, the Foundation is the Foundation.  That is what matters.
> >
>
> Erm I just noticed this, but I'd have to disagree wholeheartedly.  The
> Foundation can come and go; the projects are the only reason for its
> existence, and it does not matter one whit independently of its support
> for them.  They can outlast it and be supported by a new Foundation if
> for some reason this becomes necessary, though of course this is not to
> be sought out.
>
> -Mark
>
>
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