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

[Fred Bauder]

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Jeff Raymond [mailto:jeff.raymond at internationalhouseofbacon.com]
>Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2007 11:37 AM
>To: 'English Wikipedia'
>Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] BLP, and admin role in overriding community review
>
>
>On Wed, May 23, 2007 9:36 am, Fred Bauder wrote:
>> That depends on whether they claimed there was a violation. If they claim
>> there is a violation, and you think there was not, follow dispute
>> resolution procedures. Avoid wheelwarring. If they don't claim there was a
>> Biographies of living persons' violation then it is just an ordinary
>> dispute where you should participate in discussions about what to do and
>> see where it goes. If an article does not violate Biographies of living
>> persons, it reverts to the usual decision process regarding deletion. I
>> should say, usual awful process. With respect to your own behavior, I
>> think it is probably better to accept decisions once they are made rather
>> than indefinitely continuing to try to reverse it.
>
>If you're making statements like this before an ArbCom case that
>specifically discusses this, I'm really rather disturbed by it.
>
>As for the rest, you pretty much avoided my question by essentially saying
>"if it does violate, it violates. If it doesn't, it doesn't." Well,
>yeah. The issue is when you have two separate opinions.
>
>-Jeff

If the person removing or deleting material asserts Biography of living persons as a basis then that policy rules until there is community consensus or an Arbitration Committee decision to the contrary.

Fred