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

Andrew Turvey andrewrturvey at googlemail.com
Wed Apr 22 23:54:12 UTC 2009


I understood their statement as the opposite: they have expressly said that policies should distinguish between BLP articles and non-BLP articles. 

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "James Farrar" <james.farrar at gmail.com> 
>> From: Michael Snow <wikipedia at verizon.net> 
>> The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees urges the global Wikimedia 
>> community to uphold and strengthen our commitment to high-quality, 
>> accurate information, by: 
>> 
>> 1) Ensuring that projects in all languages that describe living people 
>> have policies in place calling for special attention to the principles 
>> of neutrality and verifiability in those articles; 
>> 

Are you disappointed that the Foundation has rejected the concept of 
applying different standards to BLPs? 

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