On 6/15/07, Ray Saintonge <saintonge(a)telus.net> wrote:
Tony Sidaway wrote:
On 6/15/07, George Herbert 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.
This sounds like the kind of proposal that would be supported by a gang
that's wanting to form a secret cabal. Accountability depends on
openness. If you feel so hurt by having this kind of accountability,
it's time you had a thicker skin.
I don't understand this response at all. I'm suggesting that
discussions pertaining to a deletion proposal of a biography of a
living person be routinely blanked. In case it isn't obvious, the
purpose is to stop the rather nasty things that are often said about
the subject of the biography appearing as a google hit. This can be
especially problematic where the person in question is rather obscure.
This is about the privacy of the *subjects* of our articles, not our editors.
So quite where cabals and thick skins come into it, I've no idea.