[WikiEN-l] When an article is in full protection.

[David Gerard]

2009/7/23 Ken Arromdee <arromdee at rahul.net>:
> On Thu, 23 Jul 2009, David Gerard wrote:

>> A good example is the death of Michael Jackson, where the page was
>> locked and the discussion was fast and furious. Being a sensitive BLP
>> (at the time), that was IMO just the right way to do it. Admins
>> stepping in and saying "no, this is a  severe BLP hazard, we have to
>> do this right."

> I would think that a BLP ceases to be a BLP once the person dies.  I suppose
> there could still be problems for other living people who are mentioned on
> the page, but the main BLP problem would seem to be gone (unless you want to
> extend BLP to the recently dead).


In this case it was while it was still uncertain that he was really
dead. Keeping questionable death reports out of a BLP is important,
particularly as enough people went to Wikipedia first to knock the
servers over ...


- d.