Glynmaclean
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Legal threats
editHi Glynmaclean,
Please read our policy on legal threats right away, without delay. You left a very clear legal threat on Gadfium's talk page here, and I must ask you to retract it at once. I have blocked you from editing, in accordance with the policy. If you retract the threat, I (or another administrator) will unblock you, and you can return to discussing the article content on the talk page. Please see the instructions on the block page for how to place the "unblock" template; include the threat retraction in the summary.
We take the project seriously, and that includes not only making certain that our biographies are accurate and sourced -- it includes preventing that most toxic and chilling phenomenon, legal threats, from damaging our editing environment. Yours most sincerely, Antandrus (talk) 04:20, 16 August 2008 (UTC)
LEGAL THREATS
No right of Wikipedia may prevail over international tort (defamation) laws. Any publication, persons or entities that publish information which is not factual and which may be deemed to have lowered the reputation of a person may be held accountable under tort law for defamation. Freedom of the Press and rules and guidelines set by online publications do not protect writers, editors or contributors from this law. We have written with a formal complaint to Wikipedia Foundation as the defamatory edits and posts have been going on for some months now. Anyone who contributes defamatory information may be subject to such legal action. Please bare in mind that Yulia has received rape threats and that the punk community in NZ has been targeting Yulia in order to bolster their own reputations within their genre. Much of the content posted on Wikipedia has been very personal including insults to her heritage, calling her mother a prostitute and so on. Due to this fact we reserve the right to defend Yulia's reputation aggressively.
- I have unblocked you after discussion with the person who handled your Wikimedia Foundation communication. My understanding is that your legal threat is no longer applicable; it would be helpful if you left an explanatory note on Gadfium's talk page since that's where you originally put it. Welcome to Wikipedia, and best regards, Antandrus (talk) 01:26, 18 August 2008 (UTC)