On 8/18/06, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
Who put that in, and what do they say?
An anon changed "posted to articles or talk pages" to "this article or its talk page(s)". http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Blp&diff=next&old...
SlimVirgin added the original text on 28 June: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Blp&direction=next&am...
I've hacked the text a bit. Who knows?
(A lot of stupid stuff in the living bio and verification policies - and in a lot of other policies - is because someone edit warred it in and no-one could be bothered arguing in a querulous fashion. And then it stays because it's POLICY rather than because it makes sense.)
I think in many cases you can replace "edit warred" with "tentatively added". !
Steve