On May 24, 2006, at 12:07 AM, Mark Gallagher wrote:
We have a moral obligation to treat the people we write about with some sensitivity, and not publish stuff just to scream "FUCK YOU" to these people, or anybody who would dare suggest we adopt a modicum of responsibility. We also have some measure of editorial discretion. These two things go hand-in-hand.
If only this would be properly understood by contributors (newbies and not so)... No matter how mmany policies and guideline we have, nothing beats common sense. Unfortunately common sense such as what you said in your post, gets usually lost behind the trivialization of WP's principles of "anybody can edit".
-- Jossi