[WikiEN-l] DRV and WT:BLP

[Risker]

On Dec 9, 2007 9:02 PM, Bryan Derksen <bryan.derksen at shaw.ca> wrote:

> NavouWiki wrote:
> > Of interest to EnWP.
> >
> >
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Deletion_review/Log/2007_December_9#Angela_Beesley
> >
> > There is also some related talk at [[WT:BLP]] regarding deletion
> discretion.
> >
> > I might duplicate the WT:BLP at village pump.
>
> Hijacking this thread slightly but on what I suspect is a related note,
> the history for [[Daniel Brandt]] has been deleted. This is not actually
> legal as far as I'm aware; the contents were merged into several other
> articles after the last AfD and the GFDL requires that the contribution
> history of GFDLed material be maintained.
>
> Though frankly, I expected this would happen eventually anyway. This
> issue is so deeply partisan that it doesn't seem like any "compromise"
> position is ever likely to be satisfactory. The reason for the deletion
> was "unneccessary redirect - privacy reasons" - is Brandt's very _name_
> now impossible to associate with Wikipedia? I notice that he's not
> mentioned on [[Criticism of Wikipedia]], though [[Wikipedia Review]]
> redirects there.
>
> I believe the issue was that it was deleted at his request because it was
the #1 google hit for his name.  Given the reasons for his request for
deletion in the first place, I guess this should not come as a surprise.

Risker

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