On Wed, 4 Apr 2012, George Herbert wrote:
BLP is a good idea and we got it for good reasons. These recent developments, however, forget that we are *an encyclopedia*. It's into barking mad territory.
No. We will not go to removing bios on demand on my watch.
I would suggest as a modest proposal that we do away with "Wikipedia is an encyclopedia". I've already suggested that we do away with the IAR clause "to improve the encyclopedia".
"Wikipedia is an encyclopedia" constantly gets misinterpreted to mean "we may never allow other concerns to take precedence over being encyclopediac". This is wrong.
I would prefer we limit content to encyclopedic content. Obviously aggregating news, especially about individuals, is incompatible with that purpose.
Fred