On 3/30/07, Jimmy Wales jwales@wikia.com wrote:
geni wrote:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_%28news%29#Robert_Mugabe...
So that's the best example I have seen in a while.
Wow. Just wow. This is both exhilarating and frightening - exhilarating in that what we do on WP can have a tremendous effect on the world, and frightening in that in cases like this, this can be a tremendous negative effect.
I think raising the notability bar without moving our bios of living people offWP will be far too controversial and chaotic. I would be in favour of doc's proposal to create a separate wiki for living people - it could be a Wikia wiki or something run by WMF. The point is to divert this offWP so as to get people specialising in this sort of thing to make the policies for articles on living people. (Specialisation of labour seems to be a good idea here.) Then we will be free to raise the notability bar on WP as arbitrarily as we like without worrying that we will be getting rid of useful information.
Or alternatively, we could just get to work on stable versions. The BLP articles most prone to such mishaps rarely have many edits anyhow.
Johnleemk