On 5/11/05, Stacey Greenstein <stacey.nj(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Should we then only write nice things about people/
Should we only include
facts that the subjects' approve? Or should we be impartial and show that
there is reality and negativeity?
And when I wrote that I meant the note to Ed to be offline, I meant
offlist, sorry. Was trying to do too many things at once there.
Stacey, it's not a question of requiring subjects' approval. Sometimes
it's important to fight to keep material in Wikpedia, and I've done
it, but in this case, the subject is a private person, entirely
non-notable, in a story that isn't a matter of public interest; so if
it were up to me alone, I'd delete it because it's upsetting him. It's
a question of cost-benefit. In this case, there's a cost to him and no
benefit to us.
Sarah