-----Original Message----- From: Trebor Rowntree [mailto:trebor.rowntree@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2007 03:59 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:
Wikipedia:Biograpies of living persons is policy. There is no basis for modifying it or overruling it by consensus or by practice. To the extent possible it will be strictly interpreted and enforced.
You're proposing that the ArbCom interprets BLP decisions, yet also say BLP is a content policy. I thought it was well-established that ArbCom doesn't do content.
We don't and wouldn't be. We would be ruling on whether Biographies of living persons had been appropriately applied or whether the user had abused their discretion in applying it. It remains a behavior question.
Fred
On 5/23/07, Fred Bauder fredbaud@waterwiki.info wrote:
We don't and wouldn't be. We would be ruling on whether Biographies of living persons had been appropriately applied or whether the user had abused their discretion in applying it. It remains a behavior question.
That's an incredibly fine line. To rule on whether BLP has been applied correctly without implicitly ruling on the suitability of the content will be almost impossible.
On 23/05/07, Trebor Rowntree trebor.rowntree@gmail.com wrote:
On 5/23/07, Fred Bauder fredbaud@waterwiki.info wrote:
We don't and wouldn't be. We would be ruling on whether Biographies of living persons had been appropriately applied or whether the user had abused their discretion in applying it. It remains a behavior question.
That's an incredibly fine line. To rule on whether BLP has been applied correctly without implicitly ruling on the suitability of the content will be almost impossible.
As I've noted, in practice it's admin judgement or a number of admins. ("What do you think of this one?" "Kill it." "Nah, just cull it severely." Etc.) Some are harsher than others, but if you spend a lot of time dealing with the attack shite that people try to pour into Wikipedia you'll get pretty harsh about BLPs. (*glances in Doc's direction *)
- d.