On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 9:07 AM, doc doc.wikipedia@ntlworld.com wrote:
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Our current vandalism RCP system regularly screws up with BLP. It reverts people who blank libels - and seldom even casts a glance at the current state of any article. You think giving these same people more work will solve the subtler BLP problem?
Agreed. And even obvious problems are missed.
Have a look at the history of this article for examples where what I presume are Recent Change Patrollers saving revisions of an article that was clearly still in a vandalised state. Classic example of blind reversion that only looked at the current vandalism being removed, not the earlier history or the state the article is being reverted to.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Murray
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Inciden...
[Something about a lighthouse.]
In case anyone is interested, a filter has been set up to detect removal of the category "Living people". That was how I came across the edit above.
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:AbuseLog&wpSearchFilte...
Hopefully it can be tweaked to distinguish between removal and replacement with a death category. And then people can check edits made claiming someone has died, and make sure reliable sources have been provided for such claims.
Carcharoth