[WikiEN-l] Non-office OFFICE actions

Fri Jun 23 07:11:57 UTC 2006

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregory_Lauder-Frost has been stubbed
following an OTRS query
https://secure.wikimedia.org/otrs/index.pl?Action=AgentTicketZoom&TicketID=310629

This article originally stated that Lauder-Frost was cleared on appeal
of charges of theft.  This turns out to be a lie: he was convicted.
His supporters assert that the theft may now not be mentioned
(although they were perfectly happy for the lie to be in there, it
seems), because it is a "spent" conviction under the rehabilitation of
offenders act.  This appears to be a novel interpretation, since the
text of the act as posted to Talk only prevents publication with
malicious intent.

They have argued long and hard for removal of this conviction from the
article.  I do not think neutral biography can omit it.

Lauder-Frost has had his solicitors write to one editor (who made no
significant edits to the article as far as I can see) and has
contacted the Foundation; Brad is involved.  User Sussexman has been
blocked for alluding to these legal threats before they were made - he
is clearly in contact with Lauder-Frost.

I think they are gaming the system.  They wanted a long puff piece
about Lauder-Frost, when it was trimmed and the truth of his
conviction added they wanted it deleted.

Guy (JzG)
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http://www.chapmancentral.co.uk
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:JzG