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The standards for articles on bloggers and singers have to be high If they're not high quality, said famous people are likely to sue or otherwise cause hassle
by pierrefar 16y ago
The standards for articles on bloggers and singers have to be high
If they're not high quality, said famous people are likely to sue or otherwise cause hassle for Wikipedia. That's something a rare flower is not likely to do.
- hugh3 16y agoI've never heard of that ever happening, and I doubt it's a serious concern for them (for starters, they don't have enough money to be worth suing). The closest it's ever come was this incident: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_biography_controversy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_biography_controversy where some guy's article stated for years that he was a suspect in the Kennedy assassination. He never tried to sue wikipedia, though he did complain a lot. Incidentally, though, this shows another reason why wikipedia articles on borderline-notable people are bad: the fewer people look at an article the more likely it is that crazy non-facts will persist in the article.
- mukyu 16y agoYou clearly have never seen the OTRS queue if you think Seigenthaler is the closest to a suit. There have been over a handful of cases (against the WMF or Wikipedia editors themselves) and some even received media coverage, though Bauer [1] is the one that comes to mind at the moment but it certainly isn't the only one. [2] [1] http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2008/05/dumb-idea-suing-wikipedia-for-calling-you-dumb.ars http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2008/05/dumb-idea-su... [2] http://www.citmedialaw.org/threats/american-academy-anti-aging-medicine-v-wikimedia http://www.citmedialaw.org/threats/american-academy-anti-agi...