Tony Sidaway wrote:
On 6/15/07, George Herbert george.herbert@gmail.com wrote:
On 6/14/07, Tony Sidaway tonysidaway@gmail.com wrote:
On 6/15/07, George Herbert george.herbert@gmail.com wrote:
So...
What was the logic on the "Courtesy blanking" of the AFD???
You're joking, surely. We should probably courtesy-blank all AfDs of living people, successful or not. These are real people. This stuff hurts.
We've never done it before, and I don't think anyone's tried to make a coherent case for why we should do so on BLP incident AFDs.
Do we need a "coherent case" for something so obvious?
You seem to forget that your notion of what is obvious is idiosyncratic.
If you are serious, you need to make a good argument why, not just a couple of throwaway lines. That we had an article once will be archived in places; unless you're arguing to blank and delete history, then the history is available if someone wants to go looking for it. The degree of protection delivered by such a courtesy blanking seems rather meager, and it's definitely against all other standard archive policy...
"Standard policy", where it suggests that stupidity is an option, can and should be ignored.
That sounds like a good reason for ignoring your proposal.
Ec