On 3/29/07, Fred Bauder <fredbaud(a)waterwiki.info> wrote:
It needs to be clear up and down the line that
the arbitration committee
will support people who remove unsourced information, as
long as they are
nice about it. But these things should never come to us, people who resist
removal of unsourced information should be clued in long before it comes to
that.
The other solution is to stop publishing
biographies of living
persons, or at least to offer subjects deletion on request.
By hosting living bios, and by inviting anyone in the world to edit
them, we're encouraging bad editing in a quantity we have no hope of
controlling.
Sarah
Offering subjects to delete on request is a bad idea IMO. If they can't
handle sourced criticism, we can't possibly have neutral articles on anyone.
We should wait for stable versions and get some BIO patrol to vet new
content before it goes live to avoid unsourced stuff ever entering the
biography.
Mgm