On Thu, 16 Apr 2009, James Farrar wrote:
(b) Sanger didn't post to the list to improve Wikipedia; he posted here to bitch about Wikipedia and Jimbo Wales, not necessarily in that order.
The same can be said of an ordinary BLP question. Most people who want to correct BLPs about themselves don't want to improve the encyclopedia; they just want to protect their own interests. We listen to them anyway.