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

[David Gerard]

2009/9/9 Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com>:
> 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).


That's the point - it's entirely in order to be very conservative in
what's accepted as verification of such.


- d.