On Jul 21, 2006, at 7:43 PM, daniwo59@aol.com wrote:
The following is a proposal that I would like to set forth.
Based on phone calls to the office and OTRS, it seems to me that one of our biggest problems remains Living People. This has several sides to it:
- People who have nonsense added to their articles.
- People who have articles but shouldn't.
- People who want their articles deleted.
- People insisting that we create articles about them.
- PR agencies adding crud to articles about their clients.
- Other.
RC Patrol is doing a phenomenal job, but the fact is that the task is overwhelming. We are getting close to 2 edits a second, i.e., over 100 edits a minute, and we are still growing. While it is possible to remove the obvious crap, more subtle problems may be sneaking in.
I would therefore like to suggest a separate division of the RC Patrol called The Living People Control. They would be charged with tagging new articles in Recent Changes with Living People when appropriate (and removing people when dead), and for reviewing the Living People category specifically [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php? title=Special:Recentchangeslinked&target=Category%3 ALiving_people here].
Obviously, this is only a suggestion. I would like to know what people think.
I have also created a page about this at [[Wikipedia:Living people patrol]]
Danny
I agree and think the same attention and policies need to be extended to organizations, especially small organizations. I'm trying to address some of these questions now at Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Hunger/Workshop.
Fred