2008/4/30 WJhonson@aol.com:
As I've said a few times, I was *solely* responding to the claim that BLP can be nutshelled as "do no harm". That was my *sole*, *lone* and *only* counter-argument I was making.
Indeed. I'd nutshell it as "immediatist application of NPOV, verifiability and NOR." Our basic content policies, applied uncompromisingly.
An important consideration regarding BLPs is that we don't have the luxury of eventualism with them.
I'd go for "don't do reasonably avoidable harm" as a nutshell of the reason for this.
- d.