On 8/18/06, David Gerard <dgerard(a)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&ol…
SlimVirgin added the original text on 28 June:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Blp&direction=next&a…
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