On 6/15/07, Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net wrote:
Tony Sidaway wrote:
On 6/15/07, George Herbert wrote:
So...
What was the logic on the "Courtesy blanking" of the AFD???
You're joking, surely. We should probably courtesy-blank all AfDs of living people, successful or not. These are real people. This stuff hurts.
This sounds like the kind of proposal that would be supported by a gang that's wanting to form a secret cabal. Accountability depends on openness. If you feel so hurt by having this kind of accountability, it's time you had a thicker skin.
I don't understand this response at all. I'm suggesting that discussions pertaining to a deletion proposal of a biography of a living person be routinely blanked. In case it isn't obvious, the purpose is to stop the rather nasty things that are often said about the subject of the biography appearing as a google hit. This can be especially problematic where the person in question is rather obscure.
This is about the privacy of the *subjects* of our articles, not our editors.
So quite where cabals and thick skins come into it, I've no idea.