Re-read it carefully: the key sentence is "special attention to the principles of neutrality and verifiability". This means that those principles need closer observation there than elsewhere, but that those principles are no different.
2009/4/23 Andrew Turvey andrewrturvey@googlemail.com:
I understood their statement as the opposite: they have expressly said that policies should distinguish between BLP articles and non-BLP articles.
----- Original Message ----- From: "James Farrar" james.farrar@gmail.com
From: Michael Snow wikipedia@verizon.net The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees urges the global Wikimedia community to uphold and strengthen our commitment to high-quality, accurate information, by:
- Ensuring that projects in all languages that describe living people
have policies in place calling for special attention to the principles of neutrality and verifiability in those articles;
Are you disappointed that the Foundation has rejected the concept of applying different standards to BLPs?
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