[WikiEN-l] Comic book articles and fancruft (was: Pattern copyvios involving...)

[Bryan Derksen]

Earle Martin wrote:
> On 20/10/06, Bryan Derksen <bryan.derksen at shaw.ca> wrote:
>> There's reasons why BLP is "ruthless" with
>> regard to biographies of living people and those reasons are completely
>> inapplicable to biographies of fictional characters. If you want to
>> propose being equally "ruthless" for fictional characters I want to see
>> a reason that's just as strong.
> 
> I thought having an encyclopedia that didn't suck was a pretty strong
> reason. Do I need to elaborate on what I think that entails? I hope
> not; I would have thought it was fairly self-evident.

We already _have_ content policies that require fictional character
articles to "not suck." They're the same content policies we have for
biographies of living persons. The only difference is that BLP says we
have to apply those content policies with the utmost speed and
efficiency, because serious harm can come from some such policy
violations on articles about living persons.

It is not at all self-evident that the same sort of harm can come from
having articles that "suck" on fictional characters. If our article on
Peter Parker claims he's gay, is he going to sue Wikimedia Foundation
for libel or get fired by a homophobic J. Jonah Jameson?


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