[WikiEN-l] more WP:OFFICE shenanigans

[Kirill Lokshin]

On 3/15/06, Kirill Lokshin <kirill.lokshin at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 3/15/06, Delirium <delirium at hackish.org> wrote:
> > Why is it not a good comparison?  There are many people who would argue
> > that Satanists are no better than Stormfront members (possibly worse, if
> > you believe the network-TV exposes on "satanic cults").
> >
> > If indeed an individual keeps making superficially neutral edits that
> > turn out not to be, then I would favor banning them---but *because of
> > that*, not because they happen to be a neo-Nazi, or a pedophile, or a
> > Satanist, or whatever the moral-panic-du-jour is.
>
> My point wasn't so much about the type of person editing (although an
> argument can be made that our level of care here should be directly
> proportional to the size and intensity of the pitchfork-wielding mob
> after Jimbo if we screw up), but about the type of article.
> Biographies, being highly susceptible to defamation and the like, are
> of significantly less risk than articles on general topics.
>
> Are there some particular biographies where we should be wary of
> Satanist manipulation?  ;-)
>
> Kirill Lokshin

And that should be *more* risk, of course!

Kirill Lokshin