On 5/23/07, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
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.
Oh, I know why/how BLP came about... I was a quiet anon editor back in those
days.
WP:BLP is written this way already. What you're upset about is what
already happened.
I'm really not upset--bemused, I guess, at how rancorous this all got, and
surprised by it. And I love the BLP overall, just not the idea that any one
person for any reason can't be RV'd out in some level by another in good
faith. Reading the commentary on the QZ and Duke stuff of, "This is over, go
home, pwned" sort of attitude is what prompted me to write the first e-mail.
That newer application, as Jeff phrased it, is what surprised me. The idea
that anyone could be playing any sort of trump card, even well-intentioned,
and anyone fully challenging it facing ArbCom or deadminning sanction as
Fred said, is just troubling on it's surface. No one is infallible. ;)
There does need to be an oversight method for anything and everything
on-Wiki. If DRV isn't the right place for these BLP ones, something needs to
be setup for them... just in case. The more people (subjects) complain, the
more everyone including subjects, admins, editors, etc., need to be playing
on the same playing field.
(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.)
Thank goodness it didn't go SPOV, that's all I'll say. :)
Regards,
Joe
http://www.joeszilagyi.com