-----Original Message----- From: Jeff Raymond [mailto:jeff.raymond@internationalhouseofbacon.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2007 12:54 PM To: 'English Wikipedia' Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] BLP, and admin role in overriding community review
On Wed, May 23, 2007 11:50 am, Fred Bauder wrote:
No, any user or administrator who is following the terms and intent of Biographies of living persons may remove grossly inappropriate material or delete an offending article even if almost everyone else on Wikipedia objects.
Fred, are you willfully ignoring the questions, or are we missing something here? If Administrator A deletes the entire article saying "this was grossly inappropriate," and it wasn't, but no one can see it, you seem to have suggested that it's Too Damn Bad - that DRV might not be the right forum, and that "dispute resoltion" is the next step.
Uh, you realize what that creates, right? I'm going to hopefully assume your wording was unclear in your statement that suggested that we should automatically trust that administrators aren't going to cite BLP to delete articles when there's no BLP violation.
-Jeff
If Biographies of living persons is invoked, DRV is not an appropriate forum. If we need to look at the article in order to make a decision about it, we can. I don't suggest that it is Too Damn Bad. I suggest it is a Good Thing, if grossly inappropriate material is removed or an inappropriate article is stubbed or deleted. It's policy. A good policy.
Fred