On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 6:38 AM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote:
2009/3/2 Sue Gardner <sgardner(a)wikimedia.org>rg>:
* Are there technical tools we could implement,
that would support
greater
quality in BLPs? For example – easy problem
reporting systems,
particular configurations of Flagged Revs, etc.
Flagged Revs is an excellent way of dealing with vandalism to BLPs,
technical solutions to more subtle problems are a little trickier.
Flagged Revs could be used with addition levels - a "free of
vandalism" level and a "well balanced, fact-checked and free of
anything remotely libellous" level. Two separate levels are necessary
since the 2nd takes far too long to be a practical vandal fighting
tool - I'm not sure which level would be shown by default to whom,
that needs to be worked out.
That might help for actual biographies, but it doesn't help much when
BLP-violations happen in other places, particularly article Talk: pages. In
my experience that's all to common.