[WikiEN-l] Defamation policy

[David Gerard]

On 18/08/06, Sam Korn <smoddy at gmail.com> wrote:

> No. No no no no no.  That is not the aim at all.  NPOV can never be
> compromised.  All that is different between a biography of a living
> person and, for example, an article on the geography of southern
> Brazil is that it is more likely that the article on the living person
> will have potentially defamatory information added.  This may or may
> not lead to legal action, but it most certainly is likely to lead to
> bad press for Wikipedia.
> All that is required is a more *rigourous* application of our
> verifibility policy for these more sensitive articles.  That is not a
> bad thing; indeed it is the real essence of NPOV.


Then please, please use your arbitrational powers to hack those policy
pages into a shape that is actually usable by editors.


> No, an "entirely different methodology" is not needed.  All that is
> needed is a more rigourous application of our current policies.  These


Well, yes. Now we need to get overreaching specific cases out of the
policy document. You can't legislate clue, but by God that doesn't
stop some people trying.


- d.