On Fri, 30 Mar 2007 10:36:10 -0700, "Matthew Brown" morven@gmail.com wrote:
IMO, this is using BLP as a hammer to beat scandal and negative stories out of Wikipedia, even a well-sourced one, and I suspect that it is done out of a belief that Wikipedia should not be reporting on such - that it is 'unencyclopedic'. I don't think that point of view has strong consensus.
That's not how I see it. I see it as preventing Wikipedia from being used as the primary vehicle for publicising barely-known negative material about barely-known living individuals.
Guy (JzG)