[Foundation-l] Paid editing comes of age

[Fred Bauder]

> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: <WJhonson at aol.com>
> Date: 18 November 2010 18:51
> Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Paid editing comes of age
> To: risker.wp at gmail.com
>
>
> In a message dated 11/18/2010 3:50:30 PM Pacific Standard Time,
> risker.wp at gmail.com writes:
>
>
> "We are extraordinarily ineffective at providing neutral, well-written,
> relatively complete and well-referenced articles about businesses and
> individuals - even as of this writing we have tens of thousands of
> unreferenced and poorly referenced BLPs - and equally bad at maintaining
> and
> updating them.
>
>
>
>
> I find that mixing to be confusing.  I don't think it's useful to talk
> about
> living people and businesses together in the same section.  Or are you
> claiming that BLP applies to "living businesses" as well
>
> I am deliberately including both of these groups because (a) they are the
> target audience for the WikipediaExperts group discussed in this thread
> and
> (b)  they are the two groups who most frequently complain about poor
> quality
> articles and errors when they are the subject of an article.  While I
> don't
> equate biographical articles with those involving businesses, a poor
> quality
> article is still a poor quality article, and I don't see why we should
> consider it "less serious" just because it's about a business and not a
> person.
>
> Risker/Anne
>
> Note: I believe you intended to send this to the entire list, WJhonson;
> if I
> am incorrect, please accept my apologies.
>
> R

An unsuccessful attempt was made to extent the principles of BLP to
organizations at the time BLP was adopted. The same liability problems
exist.

Fred Bauder