On 5/23/07, Fred Bauder fredbaud@waterwiki.info wrote:
Wikipedia:Biograpies of living persons is policy. There is no basis for modifying it or overruling it by consensus or by practice. To the extent possible it will be strictly interpreted and enforced.
I don' t think that anyone's arguing with the policy; I think we're disagreeing over how its applicability to a given situation is assessed.
I enthusiastically support the idea and written policy in WP:BLP. But I also think there are grey areas around the edges. No policy can be written to be explicit and broad enough to avoid having to interpret applicability for future situations which were unforseen or emergent. And the policy as written now has a lot of gaps in which ambiguity can be found.