Slim Virgin wrote:
What we should be asking is whether what we're doing is reasonable. Is it reasonable to host pages about living persons that can be edited by any anonymous person of any age in the world, when we have no clear way of patrolling those pages to make sure anything negative or unfair is removed immediately?
Is that the worry exactly? It seems like almost anybody who hosts anything runs this risk. Geocities and MySpace are prominent examples. Pretty much any wiki or low-budget hosting operation qualifies too.
I think the thing that's unique with Wikipedia is that there's a higher expectation of quality. Ironically, this comes mainly because we have a higher level of quality.
If we believe that it's hard to raise the floor of our BLP quality, could we lower the expectation? For example, we could add a header on every BLP article that makes clear what anybody on this list already knows.
William