User talk:109.255.206.160

September 2016

Your recent edits to Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons/Noticeboard could give Wikipedia contributors the impression that you may consider legal or other "off-wiki" action against them, or against Wikipedia itself. Please note that making such threats on Wikipedia is strictly prohibited under Wikipedia's policies on legal threats and civility. Users who make such threats may be blocked. If you have a dispute with the content of any page on Wikipedia, please follow the proper channels for dispute resolution. Please be sure to comment on content, not contributors, and where possible make specific suggestions for changes supported by reliable independent sources and focusing especially on verifiable errors of fact. Thank you. MPS1992 (talk) 21:11, 25 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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I assume this warning was created by a bot. Really, what kind of drugs would a person have to be taking to imagine that I, a random nobody, would take legal action on behalf of somebody I've never met?

I was just making an observation in response to other posters commenting that somebody is a "public figure". I correctly made the statement that while being a "public figure" has libel implications in US law, this is not the case in other jurisdictions. The comment is applicable to literally any BLP discussion where a person mentions that somebody is a public figure under US jurisprudence. If I merely make an accurate observation about how laws differ between jurisdictions, there are light-years of difference between that and "stop what you are doing or my army of lawyers will devastate you!". Why wouldn't common sense prevent you from such a silly reaction as talking to me as if I made a legal threat?

Is there a legal system anywhere on Earth that would allow me to take a lawsuit on somebody else's behalf? Even if there was, why would I do such a silly thing?

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