[Advocacy Advisors] [Wikimedia-l] Transparency and "right to be forgotten" notices from search engines

[Trillium Corsage]

How untrue that the victim of any of Wikipedia's biography articles has any genuine recourse. Shall he or she start an account and take it to WP:AN/ANI? No, he or she would be kicked around, accused of conflict of interest, subjected to a dozen or so "investigations" on whim of any of the little administrative participants there, have his or her IP checkusered and probed for idle suspicion, and probably end up with an article more invasive and damaging than it was before.

OTRS email system is riddled with the same people. Literally. The WP:AN/ANI crowd infests it. Another avenue for them to pry and sniff and investigate. How pleasing it is for them to examine the personal pleas of people anguished by the rubbish in their BLPs. And then to turn them down.   

The notability and neutral point of view guidelines are similarly applied at whim and caprice of whomever shows up and proceeds to own the article. We saw this in the case of Yank Barry. Those experienced editors took over the article, breathtakingly openly decided they would "threaten his livelihood, and rightly so."

If WMF truly, as Pine W says, has an array of "subtle tools" to contest content or indeed the existence of the BLP itself, I'd be happy to hear him enumerate and expound on it.

Trillium Corsage  

07.08.2014, 01:33, "Pine W" <email clipped>:
> I see how you could read it that way,  but remember that to be included on
> Wikipedia information should be notable and written in NPOV fashion, and
> the BLP policy applies. If someone wants to contest information in their
> BLP we have more subtle tools for handling disputes than pure removal,
> although sometimes we will remove content.
>
> Pine
> On Aug 6, 2014 3:05 PM, "Trillium Corsage" <email clipped> wrote:
>>  I see I am not the only one who noticed what WMF Legal is doing, but I see
>>  it a different way than Nathan. I see it as the WMF intimidating and
>>  threatening those EU individuals who dare to to exercise their rights under
>>  the court's ruling. Brigham and Paulson are basically saying "just try it.
>>  We will Streisand you."
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