David Gerard wrote:
2009/7/23 Ken Arromdee arromdee@rahul.net:
On Thu, 23 Jul 2009, David Gerard wrote:
A good example is the death of Michael Jackson, where the page was locked and the discussion was fast and furious. Being a sensitive BLP (at the time), that was IMO just the right way to do it. Admins stepping in and saying "no, this is a severe BLP hazard, we have to do this right."
I would think that a BLP ceases to be a BLP once the person dies. I suppose there could still be problems for other living people who are mentioned on the page, but the main BLP problem would seem to be gone (unless you want to extend BLP to the recently dead).
In this case it was while it was still uncertain that he was really dead. Keeping questionable death reports out of a BLP is important, particularly as enough people went to Wikipedia first to knock the servers over ...
We need to be ready for the onslaught when Elvis dies. :-)
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