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

[Trebor Rowntree]

On 5/23/07, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 23/05/07, Jeff Raymond <jeff.raymond at internationalhouseofbacon.com>
> wrote:
> > On Wed, May 23, 2007 3:04 pm, Trebor Rowntree wrote:
>
> > > Can you point out where in the policy it says that? Reading it, BLP is
> > > extremely focused on sourcing and doesn't even touch upon the idea of
> > > completely deleting sourced articles on individuals who are negative.
> > > There
> > > seems to be a gulf between what's written there, and what most people
> seem
> > > to think it is.
>
> > It's not even most.  This is a relatively recent idea, and I don't know
> > where it came from, but there's significant doubt in my mind that this
> > bizarre interpretation has any wide support.
>
>
> Um, it came from Jimbo declaring it as the right approach here after
> the Siegenthaler fuckup. Perhaps that was before your time.


Sorry, repeating myself here. The lesson from Siegenthaler was to source
source source, and delete anything which wasn't. It didn't (and BLP doesn't)
say anything about deletion of articles about individuals famous for
negative reasons.