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[Carcharoth]

On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 6:52 PM, Ken Arromdee <arromdee at rahul.net> wrote:
> 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.

And when you get two people contacting you, both claiming to be the same person?

Carcharoth