[WikiEN-l] English Wikipedia Policy as sovereign law

[WJhonson at aol.com]

In a message dated 4/22/2008 10:03:38 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,  
thomas.dalton at gmail.com writes:

"We  should not do harm" >>


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If people are going to keep rephrasing BLP into "do no harm", can we please  
rewrite 9000 BLPs right away?  Because we certainly do "additional harm"  
collating and collecting details into one mass.
 
That's been the essential argument which is imho entirely ridiculous and  
specious.
 
So we collect together details like Jimmy dumped his girlfriend over the  
internet, Jimmy was born in Alabama and Jimmy ran a porn site and voila we've  
done additional harm that any individual source did not do.
 
"We should not do harm" is not what BLP says, nor what it should say.   We 
are reporters and editors, the fact that we must oh I don't know... EDIT...  
should be relevant.  But we should not censor.
 
I'm in a soapbox mood today, sorta pissed off about the Genie (Susan Wiley)  
article, and the incredibly silly counter-arguments being used there.
 
Will Johnson



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