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

[Fred Bauder]

>-----Original Message-----
>From: George Herbert [mailto:george.herbert at gmail.com]
>Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2007 04:01 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:
>> 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


Exactly and what I am doing is telegraphing my intention to enforce the discretion it gives to users to delete controversial material which is poorly sourced. and of administrators to stub or delete articles which mainly consist of biased or malicious content.

Fred