On 23/05/07, Joe Szilagyi <szilagyi(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Was this change in public tone and approach to BLP,
DRV, et al discussed
anywhere beyond this mailing list and on-wiki? Any other maillists, or IRC?
It seems that suddenly a collection of senior people that work together are
all on a unified page on something which is going to be very contententious
to many individuals.
As I noted, this is what happened after the Siegenthaler fuckup. Jimbo
said "we really need to fix this now" and WP:BLP was written.
If this is the New Way, would one of you be so good
as
to specifically modify WP:BLP with these changes, to see if the community
accepts them?
WP:BLP is written this way already. What you're upset about is what
already happened.
(It's much better than it could have been - it came this >< close to
pushing sympathetic point of view. Instead, harsh application of the
fundamentals did and does the job okay.)
- d.