[WikiEN-l] Daniel Brandt

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Encyclopise?

Adam

On 2/23/07, stvrtg <stvrtg at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 2/23/07, Delirium <delirium at hackish.org> wrote:
> >
> > Rich Holton wrote:
> > > However, it must have been pretty predictable that a speedy delete
> would
> > > cause controversy, and accusations of abuse of admin powers. If we do
> > > have such a practice of removing marginally notable characters at
> their
> > > request, shouldn't we codify that somehow, so as to avoid (or at least
> > > reduce) the controversy?
> > >
> >
> > The problem is that we have nowhere near consensus for such a policy.  A
> > large number of editors support it, and a large number of editors oppose
> > it.  Different specific cases have gone different ways, mostly depending
> > on who showed up to the debate that day.
>
>
> That there is no system for listing names of certain BLP based deletes
> lends
> to the sense that these are OFFICE actions. Even talk pages get removed
> and
> we have to wonder WTF?  So theres this thin line between notablity and
> sensitivity - stating a preference for the latter doesnt really offer
> people
> a method by which they can be more attuned to peoples feelings and less
> attuned to just encyclopise everything.
>
> -Stevertigo
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