On Wed, 22 Oct 2008, geni wrote:
If our policy demands that someone corrects errors about themselves by getting the correct information published in a secondary source first, that policy is broken.
Except the information in this case isn't actually correct. The person may not consider themselves a director any more but if you were writing their oblitory it would be legitimate to state that they had been a director.
He directed one minor thing. Calling him a director for this violates common sense.
If you really need me to quote a rule, referring to him as a director would be putting Undue Weight on his film relative to other things he did.
And for BLP subjects, it's our job to figure this out. If the subject says I"m not a director", the correct response is *not* to say "you directed something, so you're a director until you give me an opposing source". The correct response is to not interpret that literally, and instead to figure out that he's really saying "you're putting undue weight on this film", even though he doesn't know enough about Wikipedia to phrase it that way.
And at any rate this doesn't justify requiring him to publish the correction before we'll fix the article.