[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 04:17 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:
>>
>> 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.


"Editors should be on the lookout for biased or malicious content aboutliving persons in biographies and elsewhere. If someone appears to bepushing an agenda or a biased point of view, insist on reliablethird-party published sources and a clear demonstration of relevance tothe person's notability."

Fred