[Foundation-l] [WikiEN-l] Legal obligation to report Wikipedia editor under UCMJ (Mike G weigh in?)

Wed Jan 2 19:19:18 UTC 2008

If I'm not mistaken, the initial warning was sent to via e-mail - not
on-wiki. Also for clarificiation, only OrangeMarlin is claiming to be
a member of the US military (inactive reserve). Jim is apparently in
the treasury department, which in my mind indicates a separate type of
obligation. I'm also not sure that the point that both editors are
admins is true or relevant.

The issues are:

1) Are we under an obligation to prevent obvious violations of the law
when we are aware of them, as in the case of all military IP edits
being illegal (or some similar situation in another part of the
world).

2) Can editors with an affirmative legal obligation warn other editors
of this obligation and their exposure to it off-wiki? Is there a
difference between warning them on or off Wikipedia?

3) Are the legal claims being made by OM, Jim62sch and others valid
(with respect to their obligation, and the legality of editing by
military IPs)?

Nathan