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

[wjhonson at aol.com]

The language of the board resolution doesn't come down hard enough on 
the side of verifiable information.  That is, if something is 
verifiable, even a direct quote from the subject themself, then that 
information should be allowed to be included, and should not be 
forcibly stopped from inclusion by aggressive article 
patrollers-with-tools.  It seems to me that the way the language is 
worded, the board is going to continue to allow harassment of those 
editors conscientious to the evidence, at the expense of verifiable 
evidence already broadcast widely across the net.

So I have strong doubts that anyone who like I, has spoken out forcibly 
for the inclusion of any verifiable information, would even be selected 
for a committee like this one.  If I gave a published interview ten 
years ago where I admitted that I was once a male hooker, well that's 
the bed I made I made and now I have to sleep in it.  Our job should 
not be to suppress what's already been published, and the board should 
make a strong statement that any tool-user who acts to suppress 
published information should be de-sysopped, so the playing field can 
be levelled.  It's hard enough to fight a billy club using only a 
bullhorn.

Will Johnson