On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 6:15 PM, Risker risker.wp@gmail.com wrote:
Such edits are now more routinely being suppressed because (a) we have the technical ability to do so without creating problems in the database and (b) there is greater sensitivity to the potential for serious harm for potentially libelous information to remain accessible. There is a significant difference between the trash-talking one frequently sees (particularly in regard to living persons) such as "X is a f***ing a**hole", and a blatant unsourced allegation of wrongdoing by the article`s subject such as "X murdered his second wife``; the former would simply be reverted, while the latter qualifies for suppression.
Just out of curiosity, a hardy perennial bit of vandalism is putting "is gay" into the biog of a heterosexual person. Would that be classed as normal vandalism or would that preferably invoke an oversighting?