I'm afraid not. (And I forgot to introduce myself - I'm [[ko:User:PuzzletChung]], a bureaucrat from kowiki.)
2010/12/22 Samuel Klein <meta...@gmail.com>: > Puzzlet - How unfortunate. Is there a lawyer available to advise the > Wikipedians? - SJ > > On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 11:56 PM, Puzzlet Chung <puzz...@gmail.com> wrote: >> At most four Korean Wikipedians are charged with defamation of Song >> Young-gil, the Mayor of Incheon Metropolitan City. >> >> According to the contributors, the prosecution is upon the Song's own >> request, and is going to be over publicizing a fabricated sex scandal >> in the article about him and (semi-)protecting it. The text in >> question is merely a sum-up of various reports about the speculations >> eventually found to be a hoax. Non-logged-in user(s) from various IP >> addresses have tried to remove the whole controversy section, >> including not only the scandal but other arguments about him, >> replacing it with personal contrary comments and legal threats. The >> edits are consequently reverted by some users and rollbacked by one >> administrator. The admin, [[ko:User:Kys951]], is also accused of >> being an abettor just because he is an admin. >> >> In the South Korean legal system, criminal defamation is partially a >> "crime upon complaint," (친고죄/親告罪) which becomes irrelevant to be a >> crime when the complainant chose to withdraw the case. (Note that I'm >> not a specialist of law, especially in English terminology.) The >> police of Southeastern Incheon thought the case itself is too >> insignificant to be a criminal case and tried to persuade him to >> withdraw it, only to be declined. >> >> Song has reportedly demanded the admin to remove the paragraph in >> exchange for fixing the charge, which is definitely not the way how >> Wikipedia works. >> >> Another concern about this incident is that this could happen to every >> bit of contribution to the project. South Korean government had been >> censoring any scribble on the web they think beneficial to North >> Korea,[2] and for later on, anything they think "fraudulent" whenever >> the state is in "threat," according to an exclusive report.[3] >> >> [1] >> https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/ko/w/index.php?title=%EC%86%A1%EC%98%81%EA%B8%B8&diff=5832689 >> [2] >> http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/shame_on_democratic_south_korea_for_censoring_face.php >> [3] http://www.hani.co.kr/arti/economy/it/455022.html >> >> _______________________________________________ >> foundation-l mailing list >> foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l >> > > > > -- > Samuel Klein identi.ca:sj w:user:sj +1 617 529 > 4266 > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l