On 4/20/06, Pete Bartlett <pcb21(a)yahoo.com>
wrote:
I believe them when they say they are
pro-Wikipedia.
That's a tad unbelievable. Have you actually *looked* at the content
of the site? They're blatant trolls just dripping with the most
poisonous malice, and they boast about their claimed abuse of
administrator powers to put up copyright infringing and defamatory
content that has been removed from the main site.
A person who makes an accusation of malice can leave himself open to the
same charge.
If they infringe copyrigh or engage in defamation they're on their own
if they have to defend themselves in court. Republishing copyvio
material is not a violation of GFDL since GFDL could not apply to the
original short-lived copyvio. The original writer may have a copyright
in the defamatory material, but would probably be wise not to insist on
his copyrights.
Ec