[Foundation-l] breaking English Wikipedia apart

[Stephanie Daugherty]

That was sortof the point behind proposed changes - some articles deserve
more scrutiny applied to edits.

However politics pretty much killed the idea on en.
On Mar 14, 2011 6:33 AM, "John Vandenberg" <jayvdb at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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.
>
> --
> John Vandenberg
>
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