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

[Fred Bauder]

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Joe Szilagyi [mailto:szilagyi at gmail.com]
>Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2007 03:43 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:
>>
>> Consensus never trumps policy.
>
>
>Fred, unless things have changed since I was editing... didn't consensus
>form policy via actions on wiki? As in, everyone does something. It becomes
>standard process. Standard process becomes policy. Policyizing encodes and
>further enforces it, until another huge consensus shift moves the policies
>in a different direction.
>
>There is nothing in BLP or previous ArbCom endorsing your statements--is
>this a new desired policy or modification and expansion of BLP? If so, who
>proposed it for the community to accept or reject, and when? A small group
>of admins does not unilaterally decide policy, and ArbCom doesn't make
>policy.
>
>I asked as well,
>
>> What other cases and articles has this happened in, before, with this
>method?
>
>You said:
>
>I don't think it has.
>
>
>In other words, you just made up this new policy change? If not, please cite
>where it has widespread support.
>
>Regards,
>Joe
>http://www.joeszilagyi.com

Wikipedia:Biograpies of living persons is policy. There is no basis for modifying it or overruling it by consensus or by practice. To the extent possible it will be strictly interpreted and enforced.

Fred