Bod Notbod wrote:
On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 12:22 AM, Phil Nashpn007a2145@blueyonder.co.uk wrote:
I guess it would also be feasible and helpful if BLPs were highlighted on the usual Watchlist interface too? (Turn on and off-able in preferences, perhaps?)
That would not be feasible, because any edit to any article can have [[WP:BLP]] consequences; consider, for example, an addition to [[Watermelon]] that said "<name of schoolmate> of <smalltown, Kansas> is allergic to melons because they turn him into a pedophile";
Ha ha, I like the way you think :o)
However, we do have [[Category:Living people]], so if we had those highlighted on Watchlists and in editing tools, that would surely help the cause, no? And it could be a choice in prefs or in the tool whether you want that function?
It can't catch all BLP problems as you've so wonderfully illustrated. But it can show us a worthwhile subset, don't you reckon?
That would be one way forward; we now have abuse filters which detect and revert the more gross edits, but as far as I know, there is no feasible way of monitoring articles within a category wholesale, so we are no further forward. Certainly, major targets of BLP vandalism tend to be already well-known and they are usually caught quite quickly; beyond that, it depends on monitoring [[Special:RecentChanges]], which some editors already do; however, given the volume of incoming edits, some slip through that net too. There was a proposal what seems like a long time ago for "Flagged Revisions", which was somewhat controversial but was intended to be introduced as a test, at least for a while; that would have meant that BLP violations could have been filtered, but nothing seems to have happened practically- however, Cary Bass has recently proposed a working party on BLPs and I look forward to the outcome of that. Meanwhile, we are stuck with pure human (and some semi-automated), and therefore error-prone intervention. Not perfect, perhaps, but better than nothing.
Cheers
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