[WikiEN-l] [[Daniel Brandt]] is gone again

[Tony Sidaway]

On 6/15/07, George Herbert <george.herbert at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 6/14/07, Tony Sidaway <tonysidaway at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 6/15/07, George Herbert <george.herbert at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > So...
> > >
> > > What was the logic on the "Courtesy blanking" of the AFD???
> >
> > You're joking, surely.  We should probably courtesy-blank all AfDs of
> > living people, successful or not.  These are real people.  This stuff
> > hurts.
>
> We've never done it before, and I don't think anyone's tried to make
> a coherent case for why we should do so on BLP incident AFDs.

Do we need a "coherent case" for something so obvious?

>
> If you are serious, you need to make a good argument why, not just a
> couple of throwaway lines.  That we had an article once will be
> archived in places; unless you're arguing to blank and delete history,
> then the history is available if someone wants to go looking for it.
> The degree of protection delivered by such a courtesy blanking seems
> rather meager, and it's definitely against all other standard archive
> policy...
>

"Standard policy", where it suggests that stupidity is an option, can
and should be ignored.