"Newyorkbrad (Wikipedia)" write
On the other hand, in the realm of BLP, this guideline becomes much more
important to keeping content that could damage the well-being and reputation
of a living person, while serving no sufficient encyclopedic purpose to
warrant doing so, does not sully our project. Wikipedia does not exist to
hurt people.
We could try to get untangled here:
- a necessary condition for material to appear in WP is not the same as a sufficient
condition.
"Guidelines", to the extent that they contribute to content policy, are
primarily not about "keeping". but excluding. That is what a guideline is - why
have we forgotten? Outwith the guideline there is reason to ask why the content is there,
in that form.
The reason that such confusion is possible goes back to wiki. Wikis are systems of
permissions. The default is that people can post material to Wikipedia unless we have said
otherwise. But BLP certainly is a big "otherwise". It says we need stringent
application of content policy in the cases to which it applies. I certainly agree with
that.
"Wikipedia does not exist to hurt people" - true, it exists to write the
encyclopedia. There is no general principle of "do no harm" that we recognize,
though.
Charles
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