[WikiEN-l] Re: Proposed policy on biographies: input sought

Tue Dec 20 00:30:46 UTC 2005

For instance, "[[Hubble Space Telescope]] initial fuzziness was due to
contractor incompetence and corruption, and covered up by NASA officials
and Congressman Diestel, who took bribes from both contractors and
researchers at the University of Maryland". The creative writer can
get actionable libels into any article - in fact, if we pinch down on
bios and do nothing elsewhere, enterprising libellers will simply
move their scene of operations.

Stan

Steve Bennett wrote:

>Ah, good example - I tried to think of counterexamples, but didn't think
>of that one. Is it possible to slander a product?  Hmm...perhaps also if
>you had a page claiming Elvis Presley to be gay or something you would
>have his estate on your back claiming you were depriving them of
>livelihood by denigrating his name. Or something.
>
>Steve
>
>
>>-----Original Message-----
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>>Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Re: Proposed policy on biographies: 
>>input sought
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>>"Steve Bennett" wrote
>>
>>
>>>Attempts at NPOV will never cause more than heated 
>>>
>>arguments at worst 
>>
>>>for any topic in WP except for one area - biographies of living 
>>>people.
>>>
>>I don't believe this.  Do you really not think that a 
>>consumer product scare 
>>might not involve WP with corporate lawyers?
>>
>>Charles 
>>
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