[WikiEN-l] BLPs: Wikipedia entry nearly scuppers rugby player's career

[David Gerard]

2008/10/1 Charlotte Webb <charlottethewebb at gmail.com>:
> On 10/1/08, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:

>> The point of WP:BLP is (or should be) that our fundamental content
>> rules NPOV, NOR, V are all that's needed - but we need to apply them
>> very harshly and we really can't be eventualist about bad info in
>> living bios.

> I intend to quote you on this, please double-check it for typos and the like.


Feel free. That's what the first production version of WP:BLP said.
It's also the only way to do it consistent with our content policies,
as far as I can tell.

Also add "It's an encyclopedia, not investigative journalism - we have
Wikinews for that."


- d.