Not that it wasn't obvious before, but the Turkey block and German Court defeat has only rammed home the fact that if the WMF can't credibly claim that correction of Wikipedia articles is a plausible first avenue of response to what readers or even casual editors can claim is illegal content in their own jurisdiction, if every single complaint has to be passed through a network of guardians and gatekeepers who are not by any stretch of the imagination representatives of the WMF, shit gets real for them pretty fast.Kww wrote:To this day, I don't understand how anyone could argue that I was going to get the WMF in trouble by increasing the protection on an article.
Wikipedians should thank their lucky stars that the WMF will seemingly not throw editors to the wolves even when they are legally responsible for performing an Administrative action they knew went against the wishes of the WMF's representative in the muck, even if by some lame sense of IAR they thought it would not. IAR does not excuse rank stupidity, at least not in theory.