[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 03:59 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:
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>> 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.
>
>
>You're proposing that the ArbCom interprets BLP decisions, yet also say BLP
>is a content policy. I thought it was well-established that ArbCom doesn't
>do content.

We don't and wouldn't be. We would be ruling on whether Biographies of living persons had been appropriately applied or whether the user had abused their discretion in applying it. It remains a behavior question.

Fred