-----Original Message----- From: George Herbert [mailto:george.herbert@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2007 03:29 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:
It does not run in a circle. If BLP is invoked the article remains deleted until it is determined by the arbitration committee that BLP does not apply.
This seems needlessly heavy-handed, and gives too much leverage to deletionists to cry BLP in marginal situations.
I would prefer someting like allowing a consensus of BLP-aware and sensitive admins to reinstate the article. If the normal DRV process is too clumsy and likely to lead to BLP violations there has to be a suitable middle ground we can find, rather than funnelling all these through Arbcom.
I've been running some concerns around in my head for a bit, and this brings one of them up to the front. I'm wondering if structurally, we're at the point that a lot of things are too big for admin+involved user consensus, particularly contentious topics like these. Arbcom doesn't seem structurally set up, or to functionally be a good impedance match, for taking all those things on. Perhaps we need an intermediate level of "administration" here.
-- -george william herbert george.herbert@gmail.com
Good point.
Fred