[WikiEN-l] Libeling NFL players; or, our abject failure to protect living people

[Blu Aardvark]

Travis Mason-Bushman wrote:
> Who are we kidding, anyway?
>   
Let's be honest - Wikipedians are only kidding themselves. You are 
dealing with systematic problems for which there is no easy fix. 
Probably no fix at all. Oh, sure, one could suspend editing on potential 
BLP articles, and make them editable only by sysops or established 
users. but then Wikipedia would cease to be Wikipedia - The Free 
Encyclopedia That Anyone Can Edit.

Wikipedia critics have been pointing this out ever since the 
Seigenthaler incident. Before that, actually. Good luck fixing the 
problem. You'll need it.