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

[Fred Bauder]

>-----Original Message-----
>From: George Herbert [mailto:george.herbert at gmail.com]
>Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2007 03:29 PM
>To: 'English Wikipedia'
>Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] BLP, and admin role in overriding community review
>
>On 5/23/07, Fred Bauder <fredbaud at waterwiki.info> wrote:
>> 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.
>
>This seems needlessly heavy-handed, and gives too much leverage to
>deletionists to cry BLP in marginal situations.
>
>I would prefer someting like allowing a consensus of BLP-aware and
>sensitive admins to reinstate the article. If the normal DRV
>process is too clumsy and likely to lead to BLP violations there has
>to be a suitable middle ground we can find, rather than funnelling all
>these through Arbcom.
>
>I've been running some concerns around in my head for a bit, and this
>brings one of them up to the front. I'm wondering if structurally,
>we're at the point that a lot of things are too big for admin+involved
>user consensus, particularly contentious topics like these. Arbcom
>doesn't seem structurally set up, or to functionally be a good
>impedance match, for taking all those things on. Perhaps we need an
>intermediate level of "administration" here.
>
>
>-- 
>-george william herbert
>george.herbert at gmail.com

Good point.

Fred