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

[Trebor Rowntree]

This just goes round in circles. Admins can delete unsourced or attack
articles based on BLP concerns. This can then be reviewed. The review should
be closed based on consensus, not votes. But consensus is subjective, people
judge it based on who they think has the stronger argument. Those who feel
that the article should be deleted think that the consensus is to keep
deleted for the BLP issues; those who feel the article should exist think
the consensus is to undelete it, because the fact the article is sourced
means that BLP isn't an issue. Both sides seem utterly convinced that
they're indisputably correct, and spend most of the time talking past each
other.

As I see it, at some point the goal of being a perfectly neutral
encyclopaedia and the goal of not being dicks can't coincide; the dispute is
over where the line should be drawn.