Re: legal threat in eo wikipedia! / legxa minaco en la eo-Vikipedio

On Sat, 2003-03-15 at 15:58, Ray Saintonge wrote:
> It seems to me that giving confidential information to the likes of this 
> guy would be a greater sin then the defamation that he seems to allege.  

There's no need to insult the man, Ray! I'm sure this can and will be
resolved amicably in the wiki way, with overall improvements to the
articles in question.

> What is the UEA in Rotterdam, and what relevance do they have to anything?

The UEA (Universala Esperanto-Asocio) is Chuck's employer, therefore a
formal written request could be sent to him there in the absence of a
personal mailing address.

>  From Googling around it appears that Giorgio Silfer is a pseudonym for 
> Valerio Ari.  What standing would a pseudonym have in an action for 
> defamation?

Presumably the same as Samuel Clemens, better known as Mark Twain, would
have had if allegedly defamed in an article about "Mark Twain (pen name
of Samuel Clemens) blah blah blah allegedly defamatory statement." This
isn't a _secret pseudonym_, it's what he's commonly known as in that
environment, and his legal name is explicitly linked to it as well.

Thus if there were any actionable defamation of his character in the
article (which there does not appear to be to my eye), and the author of
the defamation were in a jurisdiction where such a judgment could be
made and enforced (which I don't know), then hypothetically he could sue
that author. This would be a waste of everyone's time, however, since he
could just help improve the articles in question until it is to
everyone's satisfaction.

-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)

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