On 6/11/06, Sean Barrett sean@epoptic.com wrote:
Do you ever draw the line anywhere? Would you tell us to comply with the demand "I will publish the home addresses of a handful of your administrators unless you take down all of Wikipedia and swear never to attempt to build a free encyclopedia ever again"?
Yes, we would draw the line somewhere, but we don't have to be slaves to slippery slope arguments. The current situation is that we're discussing the deletion of a page about a borderline-notable figure who has requested the deletion. We don't have to turn everything into a matter of principle. Rather, we should do what's good in a practical sense for Wikipedia and its editors and admins.
We've deleted or blanked other pages that subjects haven't wanted. It's getting to the point where we're digging our heels in with Brandt because we don't want to be the victims of extortion, and while that's an admirable principle, it leaves the two sides with locked horns and no solution.
Sarah