On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 2:08 PM, Ken Arromdeearromdee@rahul.net wrote:
On Wed, 1 Jul 2009 WJhonson@aol.com wrote:
"Protecting people" is really very broad isn't it?
How about "If the publication of certain information on a subject would lead a reasonable person to believe that it poses a credible threat to the subject's life." Much narrower.
For IAR, it's also much too long. You've tripled its length.
IAR currently reads:
If a rule prevents you from improving or maintaining Wikipedia, ignore it.
We just need to phrase it so that you can ignore rules for purposes other than improving or maintaining Wikipedia. Exact details aren't needed, as long as that restriction is removed.
I think that the particular phrased wording works just fine as an overriding preamble to BLP, but as Ken states not well with IAR. Possibly a new policy, but it would fit into BLP just fine.