[WikiEN-l] Living people patrol

[Fred Bauder]

On Jul 21, 2006, at 7:43 PM, daniwo59 at aol.com wrote:

> The following is a proposal that I would like to set forth.
>
> Based on phone calls to the office and OTRS, it seems to me that  
> one of our
> biggest problems remains Living People. This has several sides to it:
>
> 1. People who have nonsense added to their articles.
> 2. People who have  articles but shouldn't.
> 3. People who want their articles deleted.
> 4.  People insisting that we create articles about them.
> 5. PR agencies adding  crud to articles about their clients.
> 6. Other.
>
> RC Patrol is doing a phenomenal job, but the fact is that the task is
> overwhelming. We are getting close to 2 edits a second, i.e., over  
> 100 edits a
> minute, and we are still growing. While it is possible to remove  
> the obvious
> crap, more subtle problems may be sneaking in.
>
> I would therefore like to suggest a separate division of the RC Patrol
> called The Living People Control. They would be charged with  
> tagging new  articles
> in Recent Changes with Living People when appropriate (and  
> removing  people
> when dead), and for reviewing the Living People category specifically
> [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php? 
> title=Special:Recentchangeslinked&target=Category%3
> ALiving_people  here].
>
> Obviously, this is only a suggestion. I would like to know what  
> people  think.
>
> I have also created a page about this at [[Wikipedia:Living people   
> patrol]]
>
> Danny

I agree and think the same attention and policies need to be extended  
to organizations, especially small organizations. I'm trying to  
address some of these questions now at Wikipedia:Requests for  
arbitration/Hunger/Workshop.

Fred