[WikiEN-l] BLP - a case study

[David Gerard]

On 29/03/07, charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.com
<charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.com> wrote:

> Certainly. While the dead cannot themselves sue, read [[Julian Bell]] for the high-profile case of [[Hong Ying]]; in which a Chinese court found that the dead could be defamed (by a work of fiction).
> We have _never_ allowed general arguments on respectfulness to condition what we will allow in enWP.


I'd say it's relevant - respect for the *reader*.

Is the article good and useful?

Note that WP:BLP works as it is based in being a particularly
hard-arsed application of the extant fundamental editorial policies
regarding NPOV, NOR and verifiability - or NOR and ATT. That is, we do
the decent thing by doing the very best we can on the article itself.


- d.