[WikiEN-l] Biography of Living persons

[Wilhelm Schnotz]

Its absence is not a violation provided we write biographies with tact
as blp advises us to do.

On 12/29/08, Joe Szilagyi <szilagyi at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>
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