[WikiEN-l] BLP, and admin role in overriding community review

[Fred Bauder]

Dispute resolution, eventually leading to arbitration. Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons must actually apply before one has license to do all these extraordinary things. The article stays deleted until there is a decision. Repeated inappropriate removal of material or deletion of article will lead to restrictions on the administrator or user who is using the policy in an inappropriate way.

Fred

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Joe Szilagyi [mailto:szilagyi at gmail.com]
>Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2007 10:21 AM
>To: 'English Wikipedia'
>Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] BLP, and admin role in overriding community review
>
>On 5/23/07, Fred Bauder <fredbaud at waterwiki.info> wrote:
>>
>> Not just any administrator, but any user may delete grossly inappropriate
>> material which violates the Biography of living persons policy. They may
>> revert without limit to keep the material out. An admistrator who blocks
>> them for that behavior will be desysopped. Any administrator may delete and
>> protect against recreation an article which violates Biographies of living
>> persons. An administrator who reverts that action, whether or not they have
>> community support, will be desyopped.
>
>
>This is good advice, Fred. The question comes up though, that I originally
>posited, of what if people disagree with that decision--even other admins?
>What is/should be the appropriate public recourse process or method for
>questioning and reviewing such a decision? Let's say [[Joe Szilagyi]] gets
>made and then deleted as a BLP vio by Admin #1. Admin #2 disagrees with this
>decision.
>
>Then what?
>
>Regards,
>Joe
>http://www.joeszilagyi.com
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