[WikiEN-l] Fwd: [Foundation-l] Board statement regarding biographies of living people

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Tue Apr 21 11:27:46 UTC 2009


David Gerard wrote:
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Michael Snow <wikipedia at verizon.net>
> The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees urges the global Wikimedia
> community to uphold and strengthen our commitment to high-quality,
> accurate information, by:
> 
> 1) Ensuring that projects in all languages that describe living people
> have policies in place calling for special attention to the principles
> of neutrality and verifiability in those articles;
> 
> 2) Taking human dignity and respect for personal privacy into account
> when adding or removing information, especially in articles of ephemeral
> or marginal interest;
> 
> 3) Investigating new technical mechanisms to assess edits, particularly
> when they affect living people, and to better enable readers to report
> problems;
> 
> 4) Treating any person who has a complaint about how they are described
> in our projects with patience, kindness, and respect, and encouraging
> others to do the same.
> 
> --Michael Snow
> 


And?

Where's the beef?



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