On Wed, 29 Oct 2008, Steve Summit wrote:
One of the meta-messages of this thread is that
we ought not
to extremify everything, ought not to constantly apply rigid
one-size-fits-all cookie-cutter thinking.
Will is seriously suggesting that the line did not have to be
removed immediately.
Okay. Considering that this happened in a BLP, this is one of the stupidest
suggestions I've seen.
Considering that it wasn't negative information or at all harmful to the
subject, *this* is one of the stupid suggestions I've seen. I can accept
the otherwise rather objectionable community of wiki-lawyers around
WP:BLP as a necessary evil to avoid some genuinely harmful outcomes
relating to even temporary presence of very negative unsourced claims,
but to expand it to things that aren't even negative is truly ridiculous.
-Mark