[WikiEN-l] In development--BLP task force

[Phil Nash]

Bod Notbod wrote:
>> On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 8:51 PM,
>> Carcharoth<carcharothwp at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I think it is this one:
>>>
>>> http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:Biographies_of_living_people
>>
>> Aha! Thank you.
>>
>> Hmm, well I can see a way I could help out with the Task Force, but
>> it
>> would depend on some adjustments to 'Huggle' which I use to observe
>> and make quick edits to stuff on Recent Changes: if the people that
>> update the application could make it so that BLPs were highlighted
>> somehow, given precedence in the application, that would help me and
>> other Huggle users out.
>>
>> For those not familiar with Huggle see, WP:HUGGLE.
>>
>> I guess it would also be feasible and helpful if BLPs were
>> highlighted
>> on the usual Watchlist interface too? (Turn on and off-able in
>> preferences, perhaps?)

That would not be feasible, because any edit to any article can have 
[[WP:BLP]] consequences; consider, for example, an addition to 
[[Watermelon]] that said "<name of schoolmate> of  <smalltown, Kansas> is 
allergic to melons because they turn him into a pedophile"; certainly 
vandalism but probably not oversightable; and certainly a BLP violation. But 
we wouldn't tag [[Watermelon]] as a BLP on that basis.