[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 12:39 PM
>To: 'English Wikipedia'
>Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] BLP, and admin role in overriding community review
>
>
>On Wed, May 23, 2007 11:36 am, Fred Bauder wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
>So you're essentially saying that an administrator can remove an article
>completely from view of anyone else, claim BLP regardless of whether there
>was a violation, and we simply have to live with it until ArbCom gets
>around to it? Your prior comments seem to indicate that a DRV of the
>material would not be appropriate, after all, and it's not like anyone's
>actually allowed to review it.
>
>-Jeff


You have correctly restated my position. However an administrator who repeatedly does this when there are no violations is going to eventually get his ears pinned back.

Fred