[WikiEN-l] News agencies are not RSs

[Durova]

Gwern: see the Ken Hechtman example above.  In 2001 a Canadian journalist
who was held by the Taliban did have his life endangered by news coverage.

-Durova

On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 7:34 AM, Ian Woollard <ian.woollard at gmail.com>wrote:

> Can I ask what policy this was done under? While I generally approve
> of the action here, it seems that the admins involved were not
> entirely following the letter or really entirely the spirit of
> Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons. So how are they not
> technically rouge admins?
>
> So shouldn't there, if practical to do so, a policy for this kind of
> thing? At the very least that way the boundaries of what is and isn't
> acceptable can be discussed.
>
> I'm also left wondering whether there are any other similar things
> going on, either temporary activities, or extended ones; or whether
> there have been in the past. If administrators do things, how is a
> user supposed to know that they're doing it for a sensible reason,
> rather than some less savoury purpose?
>
> --
> -Ian Woollard
>
> "All the world's a stage... but you'll grow out of it eventually."
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