On 3/29/07, Jimmy Wales jwales@wikia.com wrote:
I hope the horse I am beating is still alive: we have to be absolutely ruthless about removing "I think I heard it somewhere" pseudo-information from Wikipedia, and especially from biographies.
We don't have the resources to this without straight deleting about 95%+ of bios. <i>And that still wouldn't solve the problem</I>
People who are fighting the good fight here are sometimes threatened with a trip to ArbCom. They need our support, though.
If the people dealing with copyvios can stay within the rules and be effective so can the BLP people. If they want extra powers they can get them through the normal means.