[WikiEN-l] News agencies are not RSs

Durova nadezhda.durova at gmail.com
Tue Jun 30 16:30:04 UTC 2009


Agreed.  The challenge is to codify this in a manner that doesn't step upon
the slippery slope of censorship.

On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 9:00 AM, Ian Woollard <ian.woollard at gmail.com>wrote:

> On 30/06/2009, Durova <nadezhda.durova at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Our usual BLP standards demonstrate respect for unwarranted damage that
> > causes hurt feelings, or professional and community standing.  Surely,
> when
> > a human life may reasonably be at stake, our responsibility is to be more
> > careful rather than less careful
>
> Interestingly, that isn't currently part of WP:BLP. I think it needs
> to be codified.
>
> Clearly, when the subject of the BLP's life may be significantly
> endangered, through no fault of their own, from information that may
> be widely published for the first time in the wikipedia, then there's
> a very reasonable case that it shouldn't be published in the
> wikipedia.
>
> > -Durova
>
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> -Ian Woollard
>
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