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

[Newyorkbrad (Wikipedia)]

Perhaps my proposed principle at [[Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Sarah
Palin protection wheel war/Workshop#Wikipedia and the political process]]
should be expanded to include team selection also......

Newyorkbrad

On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 4:14 PM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com>wrote:

> 2008/9/30 David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com>:
> >
> http://www.rugbyheaven.com.au/news/news/unflattering-wiki-entry-puts-italy-coach-off-gower/2008/09/28/1222540247240.html
> >
> > Our BLP rules are *really important*.
>
> They certainly are, but there is no suggestion in that article that
> our article was in any way inaccurate or unbalanced. If someone has a
> bad record we should report that bad record and it appears that that's
> what we've done. I've only had a quick glance at the article, but it
> seems well referenced. If we've help someone make an informed
> decision, then go us! (I would really advise against using Wikipedia
> for team selection, of course, but it seems to have worked fine this
> time.)
>
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