[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 04:04 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:
>>
>> >From: Trebor Rowntree [mailto:trebor.rowntree at gmail.com]
>> >But where is the fundamental content policy that advocates deletion of
>> >_sourced_ articles about individuals famous for negative reasons? I'm not
>> >saying it's wrong, but I don't see it in the fundamental content
>> policies.
>> We are saying Biographies of living persons is a fundamental content
>> policy. It is based more on the danger of publishing with malice than with
>> lack of adequate sourcing.
>
>
>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.

"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."

The person's notability, not the incident's notability.

Fred