[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 03:51 PM
>To: 'English Wikipedia'
>Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] BLP, and admin role in overriding community review
>
>On 5/23/07, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> No, at the moment the problem is that people really think you can
>> outvote fundamental content policies.
>
>
>But where is the fundamental content policy that advocates deletion of
>_sourced_ articles about individuals famous for negative reasons? I'm not
>saying it's wrong, but I don't see it in the fundamental content policies.


We are saying Biographies of living persons is a fundamental content policy. It is based more on the danger of publishing with malice than with lack of adequate sourcing.

Fred