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

[George Herbert]

On 5/25/07, Fred Bauder <fredbaud at waterwiki.info> wrote:
> >From: Marc Riddell [mailto:michaeldavid86 at comcast.net]
> >on 5/25/07 12:22 PM, George Herbert at george.herbert at gmail.com wrote:
> >
> >> Šif the only things which are verifyably
> >> known about someone are in the context of a notable event which
> >> included them, perhaps as a rule the person is not themselves notable,
> >> and should only be covered in the article about the event.
> >
> >George,
> >
> >I believe this is an excellent idea.
> >
> >Marc Riddell
>
> The exception would be someone like Monica Lewinsky who successfully parlays their 15 minutes of negative fame into a more well rounded notability.
>
> Fred

Right.  We're evaluating based on overall notability and events, not
just the one event.  Lewinski and various others parlay their 15
minutes of negative fame into more attention and keep doing some other
interesting things.  Others seek to avoid further publicity after the
initial events, and don't ever do anything else "notable" by our
normal standards.

I agree with Jeff that a large grey area exists in the middle, over
which much argument will no doubt ensue (it's impossible, or at least
impractical, to figure out how to write down a policy that will
without exception properly classify future events and decisions).  But
I think that this is a reasonable and viable underlying policy to work
outwards from.


-- 
-george william herbert
george.herbert at gmail.com