[WikiEN-l] Price we pay from the Deletionists: Y-Combinator looking to fu...

[WJhonson at aol.com]

In a message dated 7/22/2008 1:18:06 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,  
cdhowie at gmail.com writes:

I don't  think Wikipedia by and large
has ever given a damn about  feelings.>>


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You're talking about macro, I'm talking about micro, the way it actually  
plays out in particular articles.
"Do no harm" which is the false but frequently cited nutshell of BLP has  and 
is being used to mean that "if a damaging fact is not so *widely* known  that 
virtually all people know it, then we cannot repeat it, no matter in how  
many dozens of newspapers its already been reported."
 
You may know this has actually happened in-project.
We should not be in the position of protecting people from what they do or  
say.  And yet, it's hard to fight against a tag-team who insist that we  
should.  If some fact damages someone, then hey, you know don't do it in  the first 
place!
 
If I embezzle 12 million dollars from my company, six years ago, but today  
I'm just a real upstanding pure saint, I still did it.  And we should still  
report it.  That is being true to the facts.
 
Will Johnson



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