[WikiEN-l] Biography of Living persons

[Joe Szilagyi]

On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 6:14 AM, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2008/12/29 David Goodman <dgoodmanny at gmail.com>:
>
>> If we permit opt out, we will have a situation where we have, for all
>> medium-level people who are somewhat less than famous, favorable bios
>> only.  There is no possible way to have both NPOV  content and
>> subjects owning the articles on themselves.  Whatever way we solve the
>> difficulties with BLP, it shouldn't be turning us into an publicity
>> platform.
>
>
> Correct. Opt-out will violate NPOV.
>
>
> - d.

I think opt-out more than flagged, more than semi, more than anything
else would be fought to the death over by some extremists. But I don't
know if it would violate NPOV. Is an absence a violation?

- Joe