On 5/11/05, Stacey Greenstein stacey.nj@gmail.com wrote:
Should we then only write nice things about people/ Should we only include facts that the subjects' approve? Or should we be impartial and show that there is reality and negativeity?
And when I wrote that I meant the note to Ed to be offline, I meant offlist, sorry. Was trying to do too many things at once there.
Stacey, it's not a question of requiring subjects' approval. Sometimes it's important to fight to keep material in Wikpedia, and I've done it, but in this case, the subject is a private person, entirely non-notable, in a story that isn't a matter of public interest; so if it were up to me alone, I'd delete it because it's upsetting him. It's a question of cost-benefit. In this case, there's a cost to him and no benefit to us.
Sarah