[WikiEN-l] Wikipedia:News suppression (was: News agencies are not RSs)

[David Gerard]

2009/6/30 Apoc 2400 <apoc2400 at gmail.com>:

> Regarding the recent discussion, I have made a draft proposal at
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:News_suppression


I'd rather cover it using the expectation that editors not be stupid.
That's actually a rule listed on Meta.

“Keeping details out of a Wikipedia article on a living person just
because there aren’t any reliable sources because of a censorious
conspiracy to keep him from getting killed is a slippery slope to the
destruction of the trustworthiness and usefulness of every article in
the encyclopedia,” said administrator WikiFiddler451. “People are
seriously suggesting that our rules should be applied using common
sense and a clue. I just don’t see how that could possibly work. Next
they’ll suggest we ‘assume good faith’ or something.”

http://notnews.today.com/?p=546


- d.