[Foundation-l] breaking English Wikipedia apart

[John Vandenberg]

> Thoughts?

The intention of this proposal, and this thread, is _not_ to improve
our processes/handling of BLPs, however that is one of the likely
outcomes of splitting BLPs to a separate project.

The intention of this proposal is to split English Wikipedia into more
than one project, so different editing policies/guidelines and
administration practices can form.

I proposed BLPs as a candidate for a new project because they are the
simplest set of pages to define and it is accepted that the current
structure results in new BLP violations every minute, and many of
these are not addressed for months.  The main wikipedia project would
still need strong policies to ensure BLP violations can be dealt with
in articles that are not biographies.

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John Vandenberg