[WikiEN-l] Don't remove a WP:OFFICE tag put there by Danny

[Bryan Derksen]

geni wrote:
> /Temp exists for such purposes. Outright blanking is pretty much
> garenteeded to be reverted.
>   
Weird, I agreed with everything Geni just wrote. :) Requiring an article 
to be rewritten from the ground up when there's nothing actually _wrong_ 
with it, or at least nothing that a little editing can't fix, is silly. 
A lot of these articles that get complaints from their subjects have 
been the subject of a great deal of editor work and I think it's far 
better to be considered a "jerk" by the subject of the article than by 
the editors that wrote it and the readers who read it.

Ideally neither, of course - if the subject is tossing about legal 
threats and such a temporary blanking might be in order while that gets 
sorted out (_not_ temporary deletion - deletion is not a good way to 
"store" material out of sight for later use, as I've ranted about 
previously). But it must be dealt with in a timely manner and explained 
thoroughly and transparently to the people working on the article 
itself. A while back I restored Harlan Ellison's article several months 
after Jimbo had blanked it because there'd been no indication of any 
work being done on the dispute with Ellison since that time, not even 
after I asked for an update on Jimbo's talk page. I don't think it'd be 
appropriate to block me for taking such action today.