---- David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:

============= See WT:LIVING, discussion at end. The "nutshell" has been instruction-crept by the well-meaning and is an obfuscated mess.

Key problem: the innovation of "sensitivity" which was introduced as a fresh new thing in this guideline. While it seems the proper and human thing to be sensitive to living persons, the use of the term in that form does pretty much subvert the NPOV "hard policy" in the wording of a secondary guideline<->policy.

I appreciate the need, but there's gotta be a way to word it that doesn't seem like an end-run around NPOV.

Idea: the thing already in about notability of life details. That would seem to me to cover it.

Any more ideas?

- d.

David,

IMO, BLP articles need to be treated differently. See policy talk page for my complete reply. Several other editors responded also.

Can you give me examples of how being sensitive has made the situation worse?

None of us that support that wording think that NPOV, NOR, or V is overwritten by BLP policy. If anything, we say that the BLP policy causes our core policies to be applied more aggressively.

Sydney aka FloNight