> On Sat, 11 Feb 2012 11:25:56 -0700 (MST), "Fred Bauder" > <fredb...@fairpoint.net> wrote: >> I think the biggest problems might involve users who have been trashed >> for one reason or another, justified or not. >> >> Fred >> > > My understanding is that the legislation is not so much about users > (which > we can handle anyway), but about notable persons which have some > information about them leaked into media and they want toi remove this > information. I remember when I was still an admin in Russian Wikipedia, I > had a long conversation with an admin of a website of a rock star, who > wanted to change the birth year in the article on the person (basically, > making her five years younger) even though we had sources claiming the > opposite. This did not happen, since I accidentally knew I was younger > than > the star, and the proposed year would make her younger than me, but I > think > the legislation in this case would require to have the information on the > birth year deleted from all sources (and, obciously, also from our > articles). I would like to hear a legal opinion though. > > Cheers > Yaroslav >
Anything that produces a substantial expansion of a court's docket, and requires close examination of a mass of material, will prove very unpopular. Fred _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l