[WikiEN-l] A new solution for the BLP dilemma

[Stephen Bain]

On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 6:59 AM, Durova<nadezhda.durova at gmail.com> wrote:
> *Suppose we noindexed biographies of living persons, upon the subject's
> request.*

As has been already mentioned, this has all been discussed before, but:

NOINDEXing BLPs does nothing to stop vandalism of them. All it can
hope to do is sweep it under the rug, which is exactly the wrong thing
to do, as vandalism can only be fixed once it has been noticed. The
Siegenthaler incident was so bad because the vandalism went unnoticed
(or at least, uncorrected) for so long.

On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 8:26 AM, Durova<nadezhda.durova at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Biographies_of_living_persons#Presumption_in_favor_of_privacy
> "Presumption in favor of privacy"

Those ideas are about what types of content are accepted into BLPs
(and what types of sources are used), and under what circumstances
will we have or not have a BLP. Anyone who cares about these issues
should put their efforts into working on those ideas, as well as on
ideas about improving dealing with vandalism as it happens, instead of
working towards futile obfuscation.

Incidentally, NOINDEXing requires no developer assistance:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:NOINDEX

-- 
Stephen Bain
stephen.bain at gmail.com