Slim Virgin wrote:
On 3/5/07, William Pietri <william(a)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.