[WikiEN-l] Saying no to new unreferenced BLPs

[Carcharoth]

On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 9:07 AM, doc <doc.wikipedia at ntlworld.com> wrote:

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> Our current vandalism RCP system regularly screws up with BLP. It
> reverts people who blank libels - and seldom even casts a glance at the
> current state of any article. You think giving these same people more
> work will solve the subtler BLP problem?

Agreed. And even obvious problems are missed.

Have a look at the history of this article for examples where what I
presume are Recent Change Patrollers saving revisions of an article
that was clearly still in a vandalised state. Classic example of blind
reversion that only looked at the current vandalism being removed, not
the earlier history or the state the article is being reverted to.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Murray

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Incidents#Kate_Murray_-_article_history_and_uncaught_vandalism_.2B_massive_number_of_attack_edits_by_IPs

[Something about a lighthouse.]

In case anyone is interested, a filter has been set up to detect
removal of the category "Living people". That was how I came across
the edit above.

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:AbuseLog&wpSearchFilter=117

Hopefully it can be tweaked to distinguish between removal and
replacement with a death category. And then people can check edits
made claiming someone has died, and make sure reliable sources have
been provided for such claims.

Carcharoth