[WikiEN-l] Fwd: [Foundation-l] Board statement regarding biographies of l...

[David Goodman]

There are quite a number of people who like tinkering with birth years
for the hell of it. it's one of the most common forms of vandalism. A
good deal of the present BLP problem is the difficulty of preventing
this on the more obscure articles.  It would be counterproductive to
have a policy to accept unsourced corrections of things like that,
uncontroversial though they may seem.

David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DGG



>>>
>>> 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.