2009/3/8 Sue Gardner <sgardner(a)wikimedia.org>rg>:
Second, there is also a fear ---represented here
probably most
strongly by David Gerard, but I believe lots of other people think the
same thing--- that if we tackle BLPs clumsily, we could make things
worse not better, or at least might introduce new problems. For
example, we might make the error of privileging kindness over
neutrality, resulting in a general whitewashing of BLPs. Or we could
accidentally encourage a massive wave of deletionism, resulting in
much smaller and less useful Wikipedias.
FWIW, I drafted the version of WP:BLP that first became policy on
en:wp :-) Very strong on the basic content rules and putting the new
considerations into that context. It's changed considerably in the
details since then, of course, but the point still stands: if NPOV
requires upsetting an article subject, NPOV wins.
- d.