[Foundation-l] Policy proposal: Anti-vandal fighter role

Wed Jun 11 20:23:10 UTC 2008

On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 3:31 PM, Andrew Gray <shimgray at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2008/6/11 Brian McNeil <brian.mcneil at wikinewsie.org>:
>> There is one issue from the GRU policy proposal I have ported from
>> Wikipedia. It specifies that those with the right to view deleted
>> contributions should not do so in order to disseminate the content of the
>> deleted contributions to third parties.
>>
>> How do we know? There is no log of who views deleted pages except for
>> whatever Brion and the other devs can access. Do we need such a log?
>
> For now, I think we can make do with simply asking people to be good.
> With a couple of exceptions, it's worked so far.
>
> Incidentally, I'm a little confused. Does existing enwp policy
> explictly say that? I've always understood that looking up deleted
> content and passing it on is fine (and indeed vaguely encouraged in
> some cases), as long as that content was deleted because we didn't
> want it rather than because it's Inherently Nasty Stuff.
>
> (This demonstrates the problem of making a rule to deal with bad
> cases: it can potentially impinge on a lot of trivial but perfectly
> acceptable cases...)
>
> --
> - Andrew Gray
>  andrew.gray at dunelm.org.uk
>

In most cases, administraters can and do disseminate deleted materials
within the terms of the GFDL.  Things that are libelous or copyright
violations should not be so distributed, as well as a few other
judgement calls probably, as the situation warrents.

WilyD