In a message dated 10/28/2008 2:54:20 PM Pacific Daylight Time, snowspinner@gmail.com writes:
But on the other hand, Lanier's edits to the wiki should have been sufficient cause to look at the claims and fix the article. That the article went un-fixed after his edits is inexcusable.>>
---------------------- No body was stopping you Phil from doing so. There is no big brother here, who evaluates all unsubstatiated claims made to talk space or edits to article space. Lanier (or somebody claiming to be him) made edits, claiming to be him. They were rightly reverted, based on the Good Faith we give to original editors that they are properly citing their sources.
His claim to be the subject should not color our view to remove non-negative claims merely based on unsubstantiated claims that they are inaccurate. That would be a giant leap in our BLP methodology.
On the other hand, should you wish to form an action-patrol to do just this thing, then go ahead and see how it goes. I feel no compulsion to act on unsourced claims (or claims of bad sourcing) by anonymous editors VIS A VIS good faith that previous editors did a good job writing up their sources.
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