On 3/29/07, Jimmy Wales <jwales(a)wikia.com> wrote:
I hope the horse I am beating is still alive: we have
to be absolutely
ruthless about removing "I think I heard it somewhere"
pseudo-information from Wikipedia, and especially from biographies.
We don't have the resources to this without straight deleting about
95%+ of bios. <i>And that still wouldn't solve the problem</I>
People who are fighting the good fight here are
sometimes threatened
with a trip to ArbCom. They need our support, though.
If the people dealing with copyvios can stay within the rules and be
effective so can the BLP people. If they want extra powers they can
get them through the normal means.
--
geni