[WikiEN-l] Looking up death dates in government death

[David Gerard]

On 02/05/07, Andrew Gray <shimgray at gmail.com> wrote:

> Somehow it seems a little more dubious to do this for someone who may
> or may not be dead. I think we need to weigh the conflicting issues of
> "does it matter?" vs. "how stupid are we going to look if they write
> and complain?"


Just think of the excellent press we'll get! %-D


> As for someone arguing that "we think they're dead therefore BLP rules
> don't apply", hit them with a damn big stick, that's just being silly.


Particularly as, fundamentally, the BLP rules are just a particularly
harsh application of the fundamental content rules of Wikipedia:
neutrality, verifiability, no original research.


- d.