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[edit] Jack Thompson (uncensored)

• Jack Thompson (attorney) censored and write-protected by Danny March 10, 2006

No official explanation was ever provided by the Wikimedia Foundation (other than "WP:OFFICE") for the slaughter of what was once a well-reference (and admittedly oft vandalized) article of several pages in length. In true Jimbo style, Danny reduced this article down to a single sentence:

John Bruce "Jack" Thompson is an American attorney at law who is often cited in the media for his views on the effects of obscenity and violence in popular media.

Many have speculated the deletion/protection was a result of a legal threat made by Jack Thompson, but this has yet to be confirmed. A Wikipedian by the name of xSTRIKEx6864 posted the following copy of the threat from Thompson:

Dear Board Members of Wikipedia Foundation:

I contacted the Foundation at 727-231-0101, asking for your fax number, and the person who answered the phone refused to give it to me because I indicated this pertained to a legal matter. This arrogance helps explain some of your problems.

You have at your www.wikipedia.org a number of false, defamatory, and actionable statements about me. As an aside, you all don't even have my date and year of birth correct, and it goes downhill from there.

I am hereby demanding that you give me the real names, addresses, and phone numbers, and any other verifying information, regarding anyone who has posted anything about me at Wikipedia, as they will be defendants. You have thirty days to comply with this demand. The Seigenthaler experience shows that you must provide me this information.

Secondly, I demand that your people contact me immediately so that we together can verify what is true and what is not true at your site. No one in her or her right mind does what you all do--passing off as "fact" certain anonymous allegations on your web site that no one has vetted in any reasonable fashion. When I tried to correct some of them recently, Wikipedia removed my corrections treating them as "vandalism."" The person who delighted in telling me that is the head of "Wikipedian Atheists." What a surprise. You have twenty days to comply with this demand.

Thirdly, if you all do not do the above, then I shall give you notice pursuant to Florida's libel statutes, since we both live in this lovely state, that you have under Florida law the requisite time to correct, apologize for, and retract the false and defamatory statements about me, as I will then give you notice of my intent to bring a civil action against Wikipedia and its posters for the publishing of false and defamatory information.

I can tell you that I have demonstrably suffered compensable harm for the reckless running of your fake encyclopedia at your site.

GOVERN YOURSELVES ACCORDINGLY.

On March 14, 2006, "WP:OFFICE protection" was lifted by Danny in order to allow the article to be rebuilt from the ground up. Arguments as to what qualifies as a "reliable source" of information continue to ensue.