On Fri, 2 Oct 2009, Surreptitiousness wrote:
The result is
people
constantly claiming that you can't ignore rules for BLP or privacy concerns,
since helping the BLP subject is not a form of improving the encyclopedia.
Hang
on, you've set up a straw man there. You haven't shown how
"helping the BLP subject is not a form of improving the encyclopedia" is
actually true.
It doesn't need to be true, it just needs to be something that people believe
and which can be gotten from a fairly straightforward reading of the rule.
Which it is.