[WikiEN-l] WP:LIVING and "sensitivity" again

David Gerard dgerard at gmail.com
Tue Aug 29 15:54:34 UTC 2006


See WT:LIVING, discussion at end. The "nutshell" has been
instruction-crept by the well-meaning and is an obfuscated mess.

Key problem: the innovation of "sensitivity" which was introduced as a
fresh new thing in this guideline. While it seems the proper and human
thing to be sensitive to living persons, the use of the term in that
form does pretty much subvert the NPOV "hard policy" in the wording of
a secondary guideline<->policy.

I appreciate the need, but there's gotta be a way to word it that
doesn't seem like an end-run around NPOV.

Idea: the thing already in about notability of life details. That
would seem to me to cover it.

Any more ideas?


- d.



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