[WikiEN-l] Wikipedia slags off Palmerston North

Jussi-Ville Heiskanen cimonavaro at gmail.com
Sun Jun 28 04:24:57 UTC 2009


Ken Arromdee wrote:
> It's like a BLP except that the subject isn't a person.  The same problems
> come up--ultimately, if a city can't attract professionals because of a bad
> Wikipedia article, it's still real people being hurt in real-life ways by
> us.  Just not one at a time.  It's also like BLP in that the city's marginally
> notable and probably isn't on a lot of watchlists.
>
> Maybe we should expand the BLP concept to include organizations, cities, etc.?
> Like BLP, it's most needed when the group is small.  There won't be
> Biography of Living Organization problems on Coca-Cola any more than there
> will be BLP problems on Bill Gates.  But BLO problems on small cities (or
> small companies, etc.) where the Wikipedia entry is the top search result,
> can wreak havoc.
>
>
>   

I would call it AOSO, or Articles on Organizations Still in Operation.


Yours,

Jussi-Ville Heiskanen






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