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

Nathan nawrich at gmail.com
Thu Oct 2 13:48:05 UTC 2008


Wasn't there a fatwa on the subject of do no harm at some point? I thought
that was an element of the argument to have it included in WP:BLP.

On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 9:36 AM, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:

> 2008/10/2 Charles Matthews <charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.com>:
>
> > "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.
>
>
> Despite many attempts to put one in as many words into the BLP rules.
>
>
> - d.
>
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