[WikiEN-l] Jimmy Wales in the news

[David Gerard]

On 04/03/2008, Screamer <scream at datascreamer.com> wrote:

> How does this relate to the English Wikipedia?  This is really OT for
> the list, try foundation-l.


The project relevance is the question of the [[Rachel Marsden]] BLP
complaints (Ms Marsden has complained about past versions), which is
how they met. And Jimbo is a frequent first contact for famous people
with a BLP problem - though in practice info at wikimedia.org is
precisely as effective - and his role in such is valuable to the
project, so making sure that's clear is a relevant project concern.

(His blog statement says he has taken care not to cross the streams on
this one, FWIW. The same expectation would apply to any experienced
BLP editor - if you get to know the subject of an article personally,
you would be expected not to do a BLP cleanup on it.)


- d.