--- Sarah slimvirgin@gmail.com wrote:
The requirement not to move potentially defamatory material to talk pages is because they're cached by Google (and even if they weren't, they're read by a lot of people), and the point is to stop the spread of the defamation.
In the context of WP:OFFICE, as well as more recently, Jimbo and others have written somethings about "hurt feelings," as if it was a policy ( WP:CODDLE maybe) which could circumvent even important policy ( WP:NPOV maybe). Could you explain this?
I agree with the idea of treating bios with care, but that does not necessarily necessitate the use of an entirely different methodology than any other wiki page - including censoring talk pages. You may as well start a biowiki that operates under entirely different rules.
Your characterisation of "the point" as being "to stop the spread of the defamation" is interesting in that, as you have formulated it, its quite easy to attack. Are there higher values being employed here other than WP:TEDDYBEAR, WP:ANTIDEFAMATION, and WP:THRONE ?
- stevertigo
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