On 3/29/07, Fred Bauder
<fredbaud(a)waterwiki.info> wrote:
It needs to be clear up and down the line that
the arbitration committee will support people who remove unsourced information, as long as
they are nice about it. But these things should never come to us, people who resist
removal of unsourced information should be clued in long before it comes to that.
The other solution is to stop publishing biographies of living
persons, or at least to offer subjects deletion on request.
By hosting living bios, and by inviting anyone in the world to edit
them, we're encouraging bad editing in a quantity we have no hope of
controlling.
Wouldn't really work though, because people would just add the
problematic material in other articles. I don't have any bios on my
watchlist these days, but still see additions of hearsay about celebs
visiting cities and national parks, music video shoots in the desert,
and the like.