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

Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton at gmail.com
Wed Sep 9 21:27:38 UTC 2009


2009/9/9 David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com>:
>> 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.

If you genuinely think the sources are unreliable, then fine, but I
don't believe that is the case. You are wikilawyering, pure and
simple. If you want to ignore the rules, that's fine, we explicitly
allow that, but be honest about it.



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