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

[James Farrar]

2009/4/21 doc <doc.wikipedia at ntlworld.com>:
> 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?

Are you disappointed that the Foundation has rejected the concept of
applying different standards to BLPs?