On 23/05/07, Trebor Rowntree trebor.rowntree@gmail.com wrote:
On 5/23/07, Fred Bauder fredbaud@waterwiki.info wrote:
We don't and wouldn't be. We would be ruling on whether Biographies of living persons had been appropriately applied or whether the user had abused their discretion in applying it. It remains a behavior question.
That's an incredibly fine line. To rule on whether BLP has been applied correctly without implicitly ruling on the suitability of the content will be almost impossible.
As I've noted, in practice it's admin judgement or a number of admins. ("What do you think of this one?" "Kill it." "Nah, just cull it severely." Etc.) Some are harsher than others, but if you spend a lot of time dealing with the attack shite that people try to pour into Wikipedia you'll get pretty harsh about BLPs. (*glances in Doc's direction *)
- d.