-----Original Message----- From: Trebor Rowntree [mailto:trebor.rowntree@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2007 04:04 PM To: 'English Wikipedia' Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] BLP, and admin role in overriding community review
On 5/23/07, Fred Bauder fredbaud@waterwiki.info wrote:
From: Trebor Rowntree [mailto:trebor.rowntree@gmail.com] But where is the fundamental content policy that advocates deletion of _sourced_ articles about individuals famous for negative reasons? I'm not saying it's wrong, but I don't see it in the fundamental content
policies. We are saying Biographies of living persons is a fundamental content policy. It is based more on the danger of publishing with malice than with lack of adequate sourcing.
Can you point out where in the policy it says that? Reading it, BLP is extremely focused on sourcing and doesn't even touch upon the idea of completely deleting sourced articles on individuals who are negative. There seems to be a gulf between what's written there, and what most people seem to think it is.
"Editors should be on the lookout for biased or malicious content aboutliving persons in biographies and elsewhere. If someone appears to bepushing an agenda or a biased point of view, insist on reliablethird-party published sources and a clear demonstration of relevance tothe person's notability."
The person's notability, not the incident's notability.
Fred