[WikiEN-l] Biography of Living persons

[toddmallen at gmail.com]

NPOV is not just a rule. It's what allows us to have a project at all. It is not "right" to violate NPOV because reality hurts someone's feelings. Reality frequently is painful. It's neither possible nor our job to change that.
	It's our job to make a neutral, factual, verifiable reference work. Not to impose our notions of right and wrong.
	Polarizing the issue into "those who agree with me are right and all others are wrongdoers" is unhelpful.

-----Original Message-----

From:  Ken Arromdee <arromdee at rahul.net>
Subj:  Re: [WikiEN-l] Biography of Living persons
Date:  Wed Dec 31, 2008 4:13 pm
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To:  English Wikipedia <wikien-l at lists.wikimedia.org>

On Wed, 31 Dec 2008 toddmallen at gmail.com wrote:
> 	I've even been told, by someone who should know better, that BLP is
>       more important than NPOV, and saw not a bit of outrage.

NPOV is a rule.  BLP is about doing what's right.

Some people elevate rules over doing what's right.  I'm not one of them.


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