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

[George Herbert]

On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 2:08 PM, Ken Arromdee<arromdee at rahul.net> wrote:
> On Wed, 1 Jul 2009 WJhonson at aol.com wrote:
>> "Protecting people" is really very broad isn't it?
>>
>> How about "If the publication of certain information on a subject would
>> lead a reasonable person to believe that it poses a credible threat to the
>> subject's life."
>> Much narrower.
>
> For IAR, it's also much too long.  You've tripled its length.
>
> IAR currently reads:
>
> If a rule prevents you from improving or maintaining Wikipedia, ignore it.
>
> We just need to phrase it so that you can ignore rules for purposes other
> than improving or maintaining Wikipedia.  Exact details aren't needed, as
> long as that restriction is removed.

I think that the particular phrased wording works just fine as an
overriding preamble to BLP, but as Ken states not well with IAR.
Possibly a new policy, but it would fit into BLP just fine.


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-george william herbert
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