On Sep 6, 2006, at 2:37 PM, David Gerard wrote:
- What is the actual process?
- How are new living bios spotted?
There is a the {{blp}} tag and the {{WPBiography|living=yes}} tag that is applied to the talk page. These automatically adds them to [[Category:Biography articles of living people]]
- Who watches edits in them, on what sort of schedule?
There is no such process in place. We have an initial proposal at [[Wikipedia:Libel-Protection_Unit]]
and a noticeboard at [[Wikipedia:Biographies_of_living_persons/Noticeboard]]
And 4. the big one:
Is there anything that can be done to make the living bio patrolling volunteers' work easier and more efficient? What magical software features would you like? Is there anything that some as-yet-unwritten bot software could do to assist?
I'd love to be able to answer "we have a volunteer patrol who look out for any rubbish going in living biographies. We're not perfect but I think we do pretty well" and be able to give more detail if they ask ;-)
One possibility would be to have a bot developer to write a RC bot that monitors all articles in the Category:Biography articles of living people. Similar to the RC bots that we have in place to combat vandalism.
Patrollers then will have a way to monitor edits made to articles on BLPs, and catch defaming statements that are un-sourced or poorly sourced.
-- Jossi