[WikiEN-l] Wikipedia slags off Palmerston North

Ken Arromdee arromdee at rahul.net
Fri Jun 26 22:14:34 UTC 2009


It's like a BLP except that the subject isn't a person.  The same problems
come up--ultimately, if a city can't attract professionals because of a bad
Wikipedia article, it's still real people being hurt in real-life ways by
us.  Just not one at a time.  It's also like BLP in that the city's marginally
notable and probably isn't on a lot of watchlists.

Maybe we should expand the BLP concept to include organizations, cities, etc.?
Like BLP, it's most needed when the group is small.  There won't be
Biography of Living Organization problems on Coca-Cola any more than there
will be BLP problems on Bill Gates.  But BLO problems on small cities (or
small companies, etc.) where the Wikipedia entry is the top search result,
can wreak havoc.




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