With respect and appreciation extended toward Apoc2400, it's dubious that there would be a need for a separate policy to cover this rare situation. At most, a line or two in existing policy would articulate the matter.
On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 5:26 PM, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
2009/6/30 Apoc 2400 apoc2400@gmail.com:
Regarding the recent discussion, I have made a draft proposal at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:News_suppression
I'd rather cover it using the expectation that editors not be stupid. That's actually a rule listed on Meta.
“Keeping details out of a Wikipedia article on a living person just because there aren’t any reliable sources because of a censorious conspiracy to keep him from getting killed is a slippery slope to the destruction of the trustworthiness and usefulness of every article in the encyclopedia,” said administrator WikiFiddler451. “People are seriously suggesting that our rules should be applied using common sense and a clue. I just don’t see how that could possibly work. Next they’ll suggest we ‘assume good faith’ or something.”
http://notnews.today.com/?p=546
- d.
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