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

Wed Jan 2 19:46:56 UTC 2008

On Jan 2, 2008 11:28 AM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com> wrote:

> <snip>
> > 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?
> If it's off-wiki, I can't see how it's anything to do with us.

If an editor sends an email with the intent to manipulate the on-wiki
actions of another editor, then it certainly is relevant.  To give a very
simplified example, if MrTroll sends me a death threat via wikimail, I'd
have no qualm with seeing him blocked.

This scenario is less obvious, but at least some people see it as operating
on the same continuum.

-Robert Rohde