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.