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

[James Farrar]

Re-read it carefully: the key sentence is "special attention to the
principles of neutrality and verifiability". This means that those
principles need closer observation there than elsewhere, but that
those principles are no different.

2009/4/23 Andrew Turvey <andrewrturvey at googlemail.com>:
> 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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