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

[Fred Bauder]

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Joe Szilagyi [mailto:szilagyi at gmail.com]
>Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2007 12:45 PM
>To: 'English Wikipedia'
>Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] BLP, and admin role in overriding community review
>
>On 5/23/07, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Is that consensus or [[WP:CONSENSUS]] (whatever that is)? In the
>> present case, someone is citing something linked at WP:CONSENSUS and
>> it's pretty damn clear they mean a vote count on DRV.
>
>
>To be fair, if 3-5 admins say, "This is bogus," and an overwhelming majority
>say otherwise, odds are the position of the 3-5 in question is the minority
>and not automagically the right decision. Even senior WPers play by the same
>rules as everyone else. ;)
>
>Regards,
>Joe

No, any user or administrator who is following the terms and intent of Biographies of living persons may remove grossly inappropriate material or delete an offending article even if almost everyone else on Wikipedia objects.

Fred