2009/4/16 Ken Arromdee arromdee@rahul.net:
On Thu, 16 Apr 2009, James Farrar wrote:
(b) Sanger didn't post to the list to improve Wikipedia; he posted here to bitch about Wikipedia and Jimbo Wales, not necessarily in that order.
The same can be said of an ordinary BLP question. Most people who want to correct BLPs about themselves don't want to improve the encyclopedia; they just want to protect their own interests. We listen to them anyway.
But correcting a falsehood does improve the encyclopedia (even if that's not the "ordinary BLP" complainant's motivation).
I don't believe Sanger truly cares how Wikipedia describes him with respect to its foundation. He just wants to bitch. There's a big difference between your "ordinary BLP question" and this case.