[WikiEN-l] Bruce McMahan

[Guy Chapman aka JzG]

On Fri, 30 Mar 2007 10:36:10 -0700, "Matthew Brown" <morven at gmail.com>
wrote:

>IMO, this is using BLP as a hammer to beat scandal and negative
>stories out of Wikipedia, even a well-sourced one, and I suspect that
>it is done out of a belief that Wikipedia should not be reporting on
>such - that it is 'unencyclopedic'.  I don't think that point of view
>has strong consensus.

That's not how I see it.  I see it as preventing Wikipedia from being
used as the primary vehicle for publicising barely-known negative
material about barely-known living individuals.

Guy (JzG)
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