Wikipedia talk:Miscellaneous FAQ
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The FAQ on "copyright" and linking back isn't exactly true to the GFDL and just paraphrases someone's interpretation of it. Wikipedia needs to be properly creditted but linking back (e.g. from non-online users) is not a strict licence requirement. --BozMo talk 15:12, 15 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] This FAQ section is in denial
- Is allowing everyone to edit pages safe? I could start defaming people. Then the legal implications of this could become a problem to the provider of this service.
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- Such a problem has not come up in the wiki world, so it's currently a theoretical matter. In practice, any sort of illegal material gets removed from active wikis quite quickly. See this discussion on Ward's Wiki for more thoughts.
There is a prominient US journalist that has lambasted wikipedia for a long (3+ months) article defaming his beliefs and history that I stumbled across in the past three weeks. Ah, Yes. It's listed in external links on criticisms of wikipedia, this version is an abbreviated excoration of a longer piece detailing the matter that I saw originally. IMHO, this section needs stricken from the FAQ ASAP. FrankB 13:18, 22 May 2006 (UTC)
