On 9/13/07, Ken Arromdee arromdee@rahul.net wrote:
*notability*. There's already a BLP problem on Wikipedia where someone finds a minor celebrity, digs up an article where they got drunk and went naked in public 20 years ago, and adds it to Wikipedia. We take that out because of BLP considerations, *even if it really did happen*. Not because it's not true, but because it's not notable. An ultimately minor incident
I don't quite agree with the other parts of your message either, but I want to point this out: we absolutely *do not* remove true information from articles on people because of 'BLP considerations'. We do it for *exactly* the same reasons we'd remove such information from any other article; namely, NPOV and in particular to avoid undue weight. The [[WP:BLP]] itself notes that there may be problems with neutrality if we just leave any true information in, and gives this as the reason for removing such information.
The important lesson from this is that we remove true things from articles *because they are encyclopedia articles* and our articles need to follow NPOV. Our project space pages are under no such restriction. We do courtesy blankings and in general try to be nice to people, but it has nothing to do with our BLP policy.
Tracy Poff