[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 12:54 PM
>To: 'English Wikipedia'
>Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] BLP, and admin role in overriding community review
>
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>On Wed, May 23, 2007 11:50 am, Fred Bauder wrote:
>
>> 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, are you willfully ignoring the questions, or are we missing
>something here? If Administrator A deletes the entire article saying
>"this was grossly inappropriate," and it wasn't, but no one can see it,
>you seem to have suggested that it's Too Damn Bad - that DRV might not be
>the right forum, and that "dispute resoltion" is the next step.
>
>Uh, you realize what that creates, right? I'm going to hopefully assume
>your wording was unclear in your statement that suggested that we should
>automatically trust that administrators aren't going to cite BLP to delete
>articles when there's no BLP violation.
>
>-Jeff

If Biographies of living persons is invoked, DRV is not an appropriate forum. If we need to look at the article in order to make a decision about it, we can. I don't suggest that it is Too Damn Bad. I suggest it is a Good Thing, if grossly inappropriate material is removed or an inappropriate article is stubbed or deleted. It's policy. A good policy.

Fred