On Thu, 16 Apr 2009, James Farrar wrote:
(b) Sanger didn't post to the list to
improve Wikipedia; he posted here to bitch about Wikipedia and Jimbo
Wales, not necessarily in that order.
The same can be said of an ordinary BLP question. Most people who want to
correct BLPs about themselves don't want to improve the encyclopedia; they
just want to protect their own interests. We listen to them anyway.