Slim Virgin wrote:
On 3/5/07, William Pietri william@scissor.com wrote:
[snip] ... Second, BLP rightly doesn't apply to talk pages. BLP is to prevent our hopefully neutral, factual articles from being distorted with opinion and lies.
Just a quick FYI, William. BLP applies throughout the website.
Could be problematic if this were true in practice, since my user page utterly fails to meet BLP's standards and I expect the vast majority of other user pages are the same - I don't think I've ever seen a user page with a references section. I've also made assertions about myself on article talk pages from time to time that I never bother to cite.
Since IMO policy should make at least some effort to match actual practice, and since an effort to remove uncited claims from peoples' user pages would be quixotic at best, how about adding a note to the BLP page exempting the user namespace? That'd eliminate a major inconsistency in one fell swoop.