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

[Fred Bauder]

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Trebor Rowntree [mailto:trebor.rowntree at gmail.com]
>Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2007 03:11 PM
>To: 'English Wikipedia'
>Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] BLP, and admin role in overriding community review
>
>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.

It does not run in a circle. If BLP is invoked the article remains deleted until it is determined by the arbitration committee that BLP does not apply.

Fred