"David Gerard" dgerard@gmail.com wrote in message news:fbad4e140512190755y2b5766e3heb00ce715a733fd3@mail.gmail.com...
I wrote:
SlimVirgin wrote:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Biographies_on_living_persons_deserve... It deals with the need to be respectful of subjects, which policies
It reads too much like an attempt to invalidate Neutral Point Of View and instead install Sympathetic Point Of View for living subjects.
And I see someone on the talk page already thinks this is a cue to abandon NPOV.
If that's a reference to my comment, I'm not advocating any such thing. I merely want to make sure that the risks of harming an innocent third party should be carefully considered.
OTOH, if it's the section further down commenced by [[en:user:Stevage]], then I take your point: ".placating potentially injured parties, even if that involves a minor violation of NPOV" is a slippery slope we should not be allowing anywhere near us. If it's been published in a newspaper, then the facts themselves are fair game, even if the subject is not: I would have thought that a biography stating "X was the subject of a malicious allegation of misbehaviour in Y newspaper which turned out to be fabricatory cobblers" might actually be doing the subject a favour...neutrally of course :-).
HTH HAND