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The article makes it sound like Wikipedia was scared into silence by heavyhanded legal tactics. But as we all know, Wikipedia's own BLP policy is more than sufficient to sanitize an article of unfounded mudslinging without any external pressure whatsoever. (And that's not necessarily a bad thing.)
2008/6/15 Steve Summit scs@eskimo.com:
The article makes it sound like Wikipedia was scared into silence by heavyhanded legal tactics. But as we all know, Wikipedia's own BLP policy is more than sufficient to sanitize an article of unfounded mudslinging without any external pressure whatsoever. (And that's not necessarily a bad thing.)
Indeed. The IT Wire article is fundamentally misconceived - [[Solomon Trujillo]] was on close BLP watch as soon as a problem with it was flagged.
- d.