[WikiEN-l] Changing the AfD process (Was: Re: [[Daniel Brandt]] is gone again)

[Tony Sidaway]

On 6/21/07, geni <geniice at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 6/21/07, Tony Sidaway <tonysidaway at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > By "WP:V" I assume you mean the verifiability policy.  Well in many
> > cases information about relatively private people is quite verifiable,
> > because it appears in medical case studies and in newspapers.  A
> > person's name is splashed all over the newspapers because he survives
> > the Virginia Tech massacre.  Do we put his name into the encyclopedia?
>
> That would rather depend on the context. We mention that John Hopgood
> was hurt by an exploding cannon although it appears that history
> records nothing else about the man.

We don't seem to have an article on the fellow.  I see that he's
mentioned in the article on the contruction of the Rolle Canal, about
180 years ago.

>
> >  I think it's good that we recognise that there is an ethical question
> > involved in such an act.  It isn't as neutral an act of cataloguing as
> > we sometimes like to pretend.
>
> Cataloguing runs into the "wikipedia is not an indiscriminate
> collection of information"
>
> We are however meant to be writing a neutral encyclopedia and that
> means writing it in a neutral manner.
>
> --
> geni
>
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