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

[George Herbert]

On 5/23/07, Fred Bauder <fredbaud at waterwiki.info> wrote:
> 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.

I don' t think that anyone's arguing with the policy; I think we're
disagreeing over how its applicability to a given situation is
assessed.

I enthusiastically support the idea and written policy in WP:BLP.  But
I also think there are grey areas around the edges.  No policy can be
written to be explicit and broad enough to avoid having to interpret
applicability for future situations which were unforseen or emergent.
And the policy as written now has a lot of gaps in which ambiguity can
be found.



-- 
-george william herbert
george.herbert at gmail.com