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

[Durova]

Not that it matters, but over at WikiVoices we have only three rules.
They've served us well without modification for over a year.

   1. Cluefulness is mandatory. If someone lacks clue, offer them one of
   your spare clues. If clueless person refuses multiple offers of clue,
   clueless person gets booted.
   2. In voice chat, belching is permissible only if it includes a three
   second duration and a good chest tone.
   3. In voice chat, heavy breathing is allowable only if accompanied by
   video. Otherwise mute the mike.

-Durova


On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 5:18 PM, George Herbert <george.herbert at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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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