[WikiEN-l] BLP, medical information, and media controversy

[geni]

2009/9/21 Nathan <nawrich at gmail.com>:
> Among issues difficult to resolve while respecting the limitations of
> the BLP policy, enter the article about a world-class athlete whose
> gender has recently been questioned. The problem is this: can the
> article discuss the supposed results of the tests and its
> implications, as widely reported, without violating the BLP policy?
> The information is clearly personal and very sensitive, and the
> official results have not yet been released (and they may not be). In
> normal circumstances, that would argue strongly against including
> speculation. The perverse effect in this case, though, is that details
> that have become common knowledge are entirely missing from our
> article.

The case in question is a fairly easy one. The media speculation is
based on a report from a single newspaper and it's somewhat
questionable if that paper's source is as solid as they claim. We
wait.


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geni