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

[Todd Allen]

Fred Bauder wrote:
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>> -----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
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Is that to state, then, that every BLP deletion which is challenged will
require an arbitration request?

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