[WikiEN-l] DRV and WT:BLP

[David Gerard]

On 10/12/2007, James Farrar <james.farrar at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10/12/2007, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:

> > That would be because he is a sociopathic liar.

> Right.
> So why the hell are we trying to accommodate him?


When and where it would make sense to do so for nice people too, in
terms of our basic content rules. We can do inadvertent but real harm
when a questionable-quality Wikipedia article is the first Google hit
on someone's name. So single-issue bios tend to be named after the
incident rather than the person.


- d.