[WikiEN-l] Rod Liddle, Spectator, on his Wikipedia article

[Phil Nash]

Andrew Turvey wrote:
>> My reading of the Act - although I don't think there have ever been
>> any relevant case histories - is that section 3 offenses are
>> committed the intent is any one of:
>>
>> a) impairing computer or program operation
>> b) preventing access
>> c) impairing the reliability of data
>>
>> I would imagine vandalism would fall pretty squarely under (c).

I think you'd be hard put to show this when the subjects of BLPs actually 
correct their own articles. Whereas we rely on [[WP:RS]], in some cases, 
those may be inaccurate. It's not really a case of vandalism, [[WP:COI]] 
comes closer, and sometimes I think we are too harsh on subjects editing 
their own articles when they presumably have possession of their own birth 
certificates, for example, and arguably when they start removing properly 
sourced criticisms, that's when we need to step in. Perhaps [[WP:COI]] 
should reasonably be replaced by [[WP:NOWHITEWASH]] as far as BLPs are 
concerned.