[WikiEN-l] Blog Entries (Bauer fork)

[Jimmy Wales]

Travis Mason-Bushman wrote:
> Or, perhaps, we could consider that if there are no indisputably reliable
> sources about a living person, we should not have an encyclopedia article on
> that person until such reliable sources are available. Or is that too
> difficult a concept to grasp?
> 
> Loosening our "reliable sources" criteria is all well and good when
> considering something like Pokemon or Star Wars characters, but we're
> talking about the lives and reputations of real people, and I am vehemently
> opposed to weakening the criteria for biographical sources.
> 
> What we write appears on one of the most popular Internet sites in the
> world, and there is a moral and ethical imperative for us to be responsible
> and prudent when talking about real people. Yes, that means accepting only
> sources which are clearly reliable to support information of a negative
> nature. 

You have my full and unreserved support in this.

--Jimbo