On 6/1/07, Joe Szilagyi szilagyi@gmail.com wrote:
Unsourced + BLP, however, should be a sure-fire way to get something removed. But, deleting them outright isn't the best thing, since Lists of X aren't a bad thing. It's just unsourced BLP stuff that is. Wasn't it Doc that nuked that Internet article last year? Brought it down from about 200 items to like 10? Do the same on one of these. If anyone reintroduces unsourced BLP material, it's a free RV for whomever to take it out. Put it back in 3 times, 3RR vio. Wash, rinse repeat. Seriously. Anons war? Same thing, slap on semi-protection.
That's the sort of thing that makes admins targets on Wikipedia Review. :-)
I don't disagree. It's just that everyone who has tried to cope with these lists has burned out because of the personal attacks and the pointlessness of the whole thing. I found myself last year googling pop singers to see whether their mothers, or only their fathers, or was it their grandfathers, were Jewish, or had Jewish names, or had ever referred to their rabbis or lighting candles. This is not a happy way to spend one's time.
Meanwhile, Wikipedia Review held a poll to decide whether I was an anti-semite, threatened to report me to the Jewish Council of Australia, and discussed whether the Mossad would kill or imprison me if they knew what I was "up to." Frankly, during my googling sessions to find out how much Jewish blood people had, I was starting to wonder what I was "up to" myself.
Try looking after any of the lists yourself for a couple of weeks.
Maybe some day, sure, in the future. ;)
Yeah, exactly. :-)