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

[Ray Saintonge]

David Gerard wrote:
> 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 ...
>
>   
We need to be ready for the onslaught when Elvis dies. :-)

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