On Tue, 14 Aug 2007, George Herbert wrote:
(apparently) A google search finds skeletons in
RFA candidate's
closet. Deleted as BLP (probably mistaken application of BLP, but
perhaps legit NPA or privacy issue), restored, cleaned up, still there
right now.
The BLP article says that unsourced contentious material about living people
should be removed from articles, talk pages, user pages, and project space.
A RFA is, I believe, in project space. Most Google searches don't produce
sources that count as reliable sources by Wikipedia standards. So it's
unsourced contentious material and needs to be removed under BLP.
I think that it's a novel interpretation to extend that from
"biographical article subjects" to "Wikipedia contributors".
Wikipedia is not a reliable source (specifically disclaimed); your
logic, taken to its conclusion, would suggest that we cannot use
negative incidents in our own edit histories as discussion fodder for
RFAs.
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-george william herbert
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