On 14 November 2012 12:23, Andreas Kolbe <
jayen466@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 12:10 PM, Charles Matthews
> <
charles.r.matthews@ntlworld.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 14 November 2012 12:04, Andreas Kolbe <
jayen466@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > As I said in that discussion, the underlying problem seems to be that we
>> > have a certain number of low-notability articles that are only (or
>> > mainly)
>> > edited by the subjects themselves, and the people who hate them.
>>
>> Since the worst BLP I know about falls in that class, I'd have to
>> agree with the statement, to the extent that there is a problem. On
>> the other hand the PR issue is more about high-notability articles. No
>> deletionist approach is a remedy to the Usmanov scenario, is it?
>
>
>
> No; but there are articles in the PR "weight class" that can be just as
> problematic. The article on Vodacom for example was attacked by a white
> supremacist, who posted about his exploits here:
>
>
http://www.stormfront.org/forum/t809859-9/#post10057604
>
> His stuff stayed in there for months. There is no evidence that Vodacom have
> ever taken an interest in their article; but I am sure they have a PR agent.
> We are simply spread too thin to prevent this sort of thing, and often it's
> only the subjects themselves, or their PR agents, who try to fix the
> article.