[WikiEN-l] Another Media and Wikipedia blackout on NYT reporter in Afghanistan

[Thomas Dalton]

2009/9/9  <wjhonson at aol.com>:
> I really don't see this as IAR.
> It seems the argument is that it's firmly BLP policy.  That for some
> reason (inexplicable apparently), keeping the name of a kipnap victim
> secret, helps them to not be killed.  Personally the argument seems
> flat to me.  But at any rate, if we were to have a discussion on
> finding consensus, I would expect it to revolve around BLP.

BLP talks about removing unverifiable harmful information about living
people, it doesn't say verifiable harmful information should be
removed (unless it is given undue weight).