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