[WikiEN-l] "Corporate Representatives for Ethical Wikipedia Engagement"

[Fred Bauder]

> On Wed, 4 Apr 2012, George Herbert wrote:
>> BLP is a good idea and we got it for good reasons.  These recent
>> developments, however, forget that we are *an encyclopedia*. It's into
>> barking mad territory.
>>
>> No. We will not go to removing bios on demand on my watch.
>
> I would suggest as a modest proposal that we do away with "Wikipedia is
> an
> encyclopedia".  I've already suggested that we do away with the IAR
> clause "to improve the encyclopedia".
>
> "Wikipedia is an encyclopedia" constantly gets misinterpreted to mean "we
> may never allow other concerns to take precedence over being
> encyclopediac".  This is wrong.

I would prefer we limit content to encyclopedic content. Obviously
aggregating news, especially about individuals, is incompatible with that
purpose.

Fred