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

geni geniice at gmail.com
Fri May 25 18:08:46 UTC 2007


On 5/25/07, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> And in practice, this is pretty much how it happens - just without
> review boards and review board review boards and straw polls and so
> forth.
>
> Most of our living bio issues are (a) treated as urgent (b) solved
> without fuss. That a fuss is made in the case of Crystal whatsit *even
> if she hasn't personally filled out Wikipedia complaint form 17-Q-8-B*
> is not a reason to throw out or radically revise living bio or content
> policies because a group of apparently single-issue editors think they
> can swing a DRV vote.

False.

>BLP beats DRV unless there's some pretty
> spectacular reason that has yet to be encountered in practice in the
> last year and a half.

In this case that would be the person claiming BLP issues to be dead wrong.
-- 
geni



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