[Wikipedia-l] Re: link for complaints

Fri Jun 3 20:38:11 UTC 2005

In that case, my "perhaps" is hereby changed to a "Sorry, I can't do
it" because there are issues of liability concerning minors.

Also, in case you were thinking of asking, there is no such thing as
emancipated minor status in the State of Arizona: all minors must have
legal guardians here (though this is not the case in other states).

Mark

On 03/06/05, Sean Barrett <sean at epoptic.org> wrote:
> Anthere stated for the record:
> 
> >
> >
> > Sean Barrett a écrit:
> >
> >> David Monniaux stated for the record:
> >>
> >>> I think that all Wikipedia pages should contain somewhere (say, at the
> >>> bottom) a link to a page where people could complain about the content
> >>> of the articles. (I'm talking here of complaints about breach of
> >>> privacy, copyright violation, libel etc.)
> >>
> >> Thank you for volunteering to handle all these complaints promptly and
> >> without pay.
> >
> > That might not be *exactly* the right time to tell him that, after he
> > spent several days on such an issue :-)
> 
> Touché.  My point, on the other hand, remains that having a /official/
> complaint channel incurs the liability -- the legal obligation -- to
> handle those complaints in a reasonably prompt and effective manner.
> The vast majority of those complaints can be properly handled by
> replying "go away, kid, you bother me," but occasionally someone will be
> seriously offended, and the resulting lawsuit will name the Foundation,
> Jimbo Wales, twenty John Does, ... and everyone who responded to the
> complaint, even if though they were completely well-meaning.  And since
> they were responding to a complaint submitted through an official
> channel, their response will be official -- they will be acting as an
> agent of the Foundation.
> 
> Newbies get bit around here far too often.  Biting a newbie with a
> legitimate legal complaint through an officially approved channel is a
> recipe for disaster.
> 
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