On 18/08/06, Sam Korn smoddy@gmail.com wrote:
No. No no no no no. That is not the aim at all. NPOV can never be compromised. All that is different between a biography of a living person and, for example, an article on the geography of southern Brazil is that it is more likely that the article on the living person will have potentially defamatory information added. This may or may not lead to legal action, but it most certainly is likely to lead to bad press for Wikipedia. All that is required is a more *rigourous* application of our verifibility policy for these more sensitive articles. That is not a bad thing; indeed it is the real essence of NPOV.
Then please, please use your arbitrational powers to hack those policy pages into a shape that is actually usable by editors.
No, an "entirely different methodology" is not needed. All that is needed is a more rigourous application of our current policies. These
Well, yes. Now we need to get overreaching specific cases out of the policy document. You can't legislate clue, but by God that doesn't stop some people trying.
- d.