On 6/15/07, George Herbert george.herbert@gmail.com wrote:
On 6/14/07, Tony Sidaway tonysidaway@gmail.com wrote:
On 6/15/07, George Herbert george.herbert@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.