[WikiEN-l] A BADSITES RfA piling-on

[John Lee]

On 5/29/07, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 28/05/07, Daniel R. Tobias <dan at tobias.name> wrote:
>
> > But, then, I've also developed some doubts about your own judgment
> > given your activity on this list last week, when you developed out of
> > whole cloth an entirely bizarre interpretation of [[WP:BLP]] that
> > held that this policy could be used as a Harry-Potter-esque magical
> > incantation by any admin in order to take unilateral action that
> > would not be permitted to be questioned, debated, reversed, or
> > subjected to any sort of process or consensus save the unlikely
> > possibility of a full-blown ArbCom case.  The fact that nothing in
> > the actual wording of the policy itself even hinted at this
> > interpretation didn't faze you one bit, though you later backed down
> > after a storm of controversy here.
>
>
> What on earth? It's been practice since WP:BLP was instituted.


I think the issue is that to date most BLP actions have been benign; now
admins are speedy closing AfDs and DRVs citing BLP - sometimes even when the
article does not appear to have any immediate BLP issues.

I think if such is the case, we probably ought to rewrite BLP to reflect
practice - you know, descriptivism and all.

Johnleemk