In a message dated 7/22/2008 1:18:06 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, cdhowie@gmail.com writes:
I don't think Wikipedia by and large has ever given a damn about feelings.>>
------------------- You're talking about macro, I'm talking about micro, the way it actually plays out in particular articles. "Do no harm" which is the false but frequently cited nutshell of BLP has and is being used to mean that "if a damaging fact is not so *widely* known that virtually all people know it, then we cannot repeat it, no matter in how many dozens of newspapers its already been reported."
You may know this has actually happened in-project. We should not be in the position of protecting people from what they do or say. And yet, it's hard to fight against a tag-team who insist that we should. If some fact damages someone, then hey, you know don't do it in the first place!
If I embezzle 12 million dollars from my company, six years ago, but today I'm just a real upstanding pure saint, I still did it. And we should still report it. That is being true to the facts.
Will Johnson
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