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[Ken Arromdee]

On Wed, 22 Apr 2009 wjhonson at aol.com wrote:
>If they are not willing to type two sentences on an official 
>site, but ARE willing to type a hundred in-project, than I submit it's 
>*highly* unlikely to be the person in question in the first place.
>
>IF they write a blog where they complain about process, that is simply 
>more free publicity for us.  There is no such thing as bad publicity.

This is exactly what's wrong with BLP.  We care more about the process than
we do about the people.

If someone says that a relatively uncontroversial fact in an article about
themselves is wrong, we should fix it.  If our process says we shouldn't
listen to them, then we need to fix both the process and the article.

If you really doubt that the person themselves is sending you a correction,
then fine.  But that's only good if you really have some reason to doubt it's
them.  Saying "what if it isn't them" and then stretching it to cover all
situations whether you believe it's them or not is just elevating process
above people.