[WikiEN-l] English Wikipedia Policy as sovereign law

[Wily D]

On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 1:29 PM,  <WJhonson at aol.com> wrote:
>
>  In a message dated 4/22/2008 10:03:38 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
>
> thomas.dalton at gmail.com writes:
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>  "We  should not do harm" >>
>
>
>  -----------------------
>  If people are going to keep rephrasing BLP into "do no harm", can we please
>  rewrite 9000 BLPs right away?  Because we certainly do "additional harm"
>  collating and collecting details into one mass.
>
>  That's been the essential argument which is imho entirely ridiculous and
>  specious.
>
>  So we collect together details like Jimmy dumped his girlfriend over the
>  internet, Jimmy was born in Alabama and Jimmy ran a porn site and voila we've
>  done additional harm that any individual source did not do.
>
>  "We should not do harm" is not what BLP says, nor what it should say.   We
>  are reporters and editors, the fact that we must oh I don't know... EDIT...
>  should be relevant.  But we should not censor.
>
>  I'm in a soapbox mood today, sorta pissed off about the Genie (Susan Wiley)
>  article, and the incredibly silly counter-arguments being used there.
>
>  Will Johnson
>
>
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Quoth the WP:BLP "An important rule of thumb when writing biographical
material about living persons is "do no harm"."

What this means, of course, is anyone's guess.

WilyD