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

[Michael Snow]

Jeff Raymond wrote:
> The problem is BLP
> being used as a bludgeon to get rid of well-sourced, verifiable, NPOV
> information because the neutral point of view is negative.
>   
How can the neutral point of view be negative? That's a contradiction in 
terms. An article may contain negative information, but the presentation 
must still be neutral. The notion that if only negative information is 
available, this excuses making the "neutral" point of view negative, is 
at the root of many of these problems. It seems that very few of our 
contributors have the skill and judgment needed to translate highly 
unfavorable source material into neutral prose.

--Michael Snow