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

[Peter Coombe]

On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 6:37 PM, Cary Bass<cary at wikimedia.org> wrote:
> In that respect, I'd like to solicit members of the community to take
> part in this project.  If you are interested, please send me a brief
> email summarizing what your involvement in BLPs in the past has been
> and your own opinion as to why BLPs are such a problematic area.

2009/8/6 <wjhonson at aol.com>
> 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.

This is a problem. From Cary's email it sounds like this task force
will only be composed of people with similar views on BLP, in fact
that will be the main selection criteria. Regardless of the merits of
these views, such a task force will be prone to groupthink. I would
recommend the selection of some community members with different
opinions (and encourage those members to put themselves forward in the
first place)

Pete / the wub